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Pakistan at the present time has nothing to launch. You need a sophisticated industrial and technological capability to develop sensors, radars, camera's. lenses etc... and to be able to integrate these into a fully functioning remote sensing/SAR/comm satellite. In the past 10 years Suparco has...

But only one splash zone? New first stage booster?

Since the Pakistan Navy has stopped updating their website, you can find a new Notam on India's for a Pakistani missile firing. http://www.hydrobharat.nic.in/pdf/navarea_warnings_in_force.pdf DTG 24103 Z ROUTINE FROM NAVAREA VII CO-ORDINATOR UNCLAS TO NAVAREA VII – 626...

New NOTAM http://paknavy.gov.pk/securite/20141111SEC%20306.txt SECURITE 111215 UTC NOV 2014 NAVAREA NINE (.) 306 (.) ARABIAN SEA (.) PAKISTAN (.) CHARTS PAK 33, 58 (INT 7019) BA 4071 AND 4705 (.) 2. MISSILE FIRING WILL BE CARRIED OUT BETWEEN 0600 TO 0900 UTC ON 13 AND 14 NOV 2014 IN AREA...

The 692 km altitude refers to the testing of the new larger first stage booster. Over 6 m in length and a larger diameter (slightly smaller than 2m) Likely, it is will be coupled with the Shaheen II second stage at this point to test separation etc... Further ahead, it's likely the new first...

Looks like Test may be postponed? New NOTAMS issued. http://paknavy.gov.pk/securite/20141105SEC%20302.txt SECURITE 050800 UTC NOV 2014 NAVAREA NINE (.) 302 (.) ARABIAN SEA (.) PAKISTAN (.) CHARTS BA 4071 AND 4705 (.) 2. MISSILE FIRING WILL BE CARRIED OUT BETWEEN 0400 TO 0700 UTC ON 12 AND...

The Pakistan Navy HAS ISSUED EXCLUSION ZONES in the Indian Ocean for Nov 7 - Nov 8th. They may fire a missile. They may abort/decide not to due to weather/technical/logistical/political decisions. Nav Warning I report what I find.

Nav Warning http://paknavy.gov.pk/securite/20141031SEC%20298.txt SECURITE 310909 UTC OCT 2014 NAVAREA NINE (.) 298 (.) ARABIAN SEA (.) PAKISTAN (.) CHARTS BA 4071 AND 4705 (.) 2. MISSILE FIRING WILL BE CARRIED OUT BETWEEN 0400 TO 0700 UTC ON 07 AND 08 NOV 14 IN AREA BOUNDED BY FOLLOWING...

Pakistan has notified that the exclusion zones are for 'Space debris'.

Closures come into effect November 7 - November 8th

ALERT ALERT Possible Shaheen-III/SLV Test Imminent. Pakistan has obtained a series of airspace 'closures' on a trajectory in the Indian Ocean that correspond to a very long range missile/SLV test. More info as it emerges.

Student Satellite Program expands. http://www.aprsaf.org/annual_meetings/aprsaf20/pdf/working_groups/sea_day1/1545_7-2_Space_Education_&_Awareness_pakistan.pdf Recent Initiatives  Pakistan National Student Satellite Program (PNSSP)  Program was launched on 07th October 2013  A series of...

Ukraine, Pakistan plan to develop cooperation in space area Ukraine and Pakistan are working on plans to develop cooperation in the space area, the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) has told Interfax-Ukraine. The SSAU said that the sides have started preparing a Ukrainian-Pakistani...

A long range SLV or long range missile launch pad seems to be now externally complete at the Sonmiani Bay Launch facilty. Looks to be for a solid fuel SLV/missile as no flame trenches or fuel tanks are visible. Construction started in 2003. Google Earth coordinates 25°11'59.03"N 66°44'21.28"E

http://riuma.uma.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10630/6701/Pakistan National Student Satellite Program.pdf?sequence=6 Summary: Micro-satellite development at University environment provides hands-on experience of building a satellite from design through launch and orbit operations for students...

New developments: Suparco Projects: -PRSS-1: China building and launching in 2016 IST and University level projects: Moot on aerospace science and engineering starts - thenews.com.pk -ICUBE2: IST has embarked on planning larger 2U Cubesat ‘ICUBE-2’ with larger payload capacity and...

Icube - Islamabad, Pakistan - Educational research | Facebook iCUBE-1 Launch A Stupendous Achievement by Institute of Space Technology Pakistan’s first Cubesat satellite, iCUBE-1, was launched on Thursday at 1210 hrs onboard Dnepr launch vehicle from Yasny launch base, Russia. It is...

PRSS -1 Again being pushed back - now 2017. ICUBE-1 Launch date 21st November 2013 - Russia. Susat-1 - Program has 'officially' been launched on OCT-7 as “National Student Satellite Programme (PNSSP)” but further details are found here SUPARCO-Universities Interaction (Student Projects)...

There is no money for a serious SLV development program. In theory a Shaheen derived vehicle could lift 50 - 100 kg into LEO but for either remote sensing satellite (>400 - 800 kg into LEO) or communications satellite (2.7 tons in GTO) it would be useless. Even the PRSS is being funded by soft...