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Palomar

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Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Pakistan -- Satellite

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/pakistan-05f.html]Click

*Noticed this little bit. 

Searched before posting...no returns for any articles pertaining to Pakistan, so I presume this is a first-time post on the topic.

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SpaceNut

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From: New Hampshire

Registered: 2004-07-22

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Re: Pakistan -- Satellite

Interesting that the Badr-1 - Pakistan's first amateur Radio satellite was launched as a secondary payload on a Chinese Long March 2E rocket. I believe that militarily Pakistan does have rockets but apparentently nothing that could lift the satellite to orbit. Kind of a wow.. in that china is getting into the launch business as well.