Moon mission: Pakistan

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YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS

2024

Srinivas Laxman, May 3, 2024: The Times of India

Nearly nine months after India’s Chandrayaan 3 soft-landed on moon’s south poleand set records, Pakistan is set to embark on its maiden lunar mission on board China’s Change’6 orbiter.


Change’6 is slated for lift-off around 1.30pm (Indian time) from Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre on China’s Hainan Island. According to Pakistan’s Institute Of Space Technology (IST), the moon-bound spacecraft is a lunar cubesat, named ICube Qamar (ICUBE-Q), with athree-month mission span. It is a collaborative effort of IST’s faculty and students, Pakistan’s national space agency Suparco and China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).


According to IST, ICUBE-Q weighs approximately 7kg and is equipped with two optical cameras to capture the lunar surface. It features systems for attitude control, thermal management and deep-space communication.