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	KARACHI: Pollution crosses tolerable limits: Suparco airs SOS -DAWN - Local; July 20, 2006
		Suparco conducted a survey over a period of six months last year for the transport and communication department of city government, under a project ‘Feasibility Study and Development of Transportation Control Plan of Karachi Metropolitan’, final report of which was recently submitted to the city government.
		Suparco also assessed the impact of vehicular traffic on the physical environment through surveys on quality of air, groundwater, wastewater, soil and vegetation at designated intersections across the city.
		Suparco’s report said that the environmental conditions on road and transport sector had deteriorated considerably and would likely to continue deteriorating further while policies and standard operating procedures for checking the unabated deterioration of environment were non-existent.
	www.dawn.com /2006/07/20/local1.htm (0 words)

	Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO)
		SUPARCO is headquartered at the Arabian Sea port of Karachi in southern Pakistan, with additional facilities at the University of the Punjab at Lahore.
		As of late 1999 the Chairman of SUPARCO was Dr. Abdul Majeed.
		As the national space agency, SUPARCO is responsible for satellite applications to meteorological and atmospheric studies for scientists belonging to various national agencies.
	www.fas.org /spp/guide/pakistan/agency/index.html (1199 words)

	Suparco - LaunchBase.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		SUPARCO is an autonomous Research and Development organization under the Federal Government.
		SUPARCO is responsible for various functions from satellite applications to meteorological and atmospheric studies for scientists belonging to various national agencies.
		The satellite was named Badr inspired from the Urdu language word for "new moon." This first satellite, Badr-1 or Badr-A, was planned to be launched on the US Space Shuttle, but the 1986 Challenger explosion and consequent delay in American flights changed the plan.
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/Suparco (783 words)

	Pakistan selects Telesat for procurement and launch of Paksat 1-R satellite
		Established in 1962, SUPARCO is devoted to research and development in space sciences, space technology and their applications.
		SUPARCO is actively involved in the development of capability and human resources required for the effective implementation of the National Space Programme.
		SUPARCO has earlier designed, developed and launched two Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) experimental satellites, BADR-1 and BADR-B. A communication satellite, Paksat-1, was deployed at 38oE orbital slot in December 2002, which has since been offering satellite capacity to various telecom service providers.
	www.telesat.ca /news/releases/2007/07-05-e.asp (0 words)

	News
		The former chairman of Suparco, Dr Salim Mehmud, when contacted by The News appreciated the directives of the resident regarding manufacturing and launching of a multi-purpose satellite.
		Some of the achievements of Suparco are upgrading the Satellite Ground Receiving Station at Rawat.
		Suparco has successfully applied satellite images for survey of natural resources and national developments.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Mar05/27/05.HTM (407 words)

	Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission Information
		SUPARCO is headquartered at the Arabian Sea port of Karachi in southern Pakistan, with additional facilities at the University of the Punjab at Lahore.
		A prohibition was imposed on exports and reexports to certain government, parastatal, and private entities in India and Pakistan determined to be involved in nuclear or missile activities.
		The SUPARCO Complex near Rawat is a comprehensive facility that tracks, acquires, archives, processes and analyses imagery from earth observation satellites such as Landsat, SPOT and NOAA.
	www.bookrags.com /Space_and_Upper_Atmosphere_Research_Commission (1322 words)

	Space Today Online - Amateur Radio Satellites Launched in the 1990s - Pakistan's Badr
		SUPARCO is at the University of the Punjab at Lahore, a prominent border city in eastern Pakistan not far from Delhi, India, and at the Arabian Sea port of Karachi in southern Pakistan.
		SUPARCO has fired small rockets on sub-orbital science flights from launch pads at its Maini Beach flight-range, 36 miles west of Karachi.
		SUPARCO hams also used knowledge gained at the university to build their own satellite.
	www.spacetoday.org /Satellites/Hamsats/Hamsats1990s/Hamsats90sBadr.html (472 words)

	eoPortal directory: SUPARCO (Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission)
		The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) is the country's national space agency.
		It is responsible for the execution of the space science and technology programs in the country, as approved by the Government of Pakistan.
		SUPARCO is an autonomous RandD organization under the Federal Government.
	directory.eoportal.org /info_SUPARCOPakistanSpaceUpperAtmosphereResearchCommission.html (0 words)

	Clean Air Initiative: Asia - SUPARCO
		SUPARCO has in the past, carried out a number of Environmental Monitoring, Environmental Impact Assessments, Pollutant Emissions, Transport, Transformation, Deposition and Effects Studies,Preparation of Source Inventories, and Environmental Audits of many industrial units.
		SUPARCO also provides environmental services such as environmental audits, stack emission monitoring, ambient air surveys and other environmental assessment studies etc to different environmental enterprises, industrial units.
		SUPARCO has analyzed the fog aerosol to ascertain the causes, to assess the behavior, trends and impact of different elements and compounds during 1998-2004.
	www.cleanairnet.org /caiasia/1412/article-59478.html (786 words)

	Institute of Space Technology
		SUPARCO’s sponsorship will be given to the selected students of IST for subsequent induction in SUPARCO.
		On successful completion of engineering degree, the individual will be inducted in SUPARCO as Assistant Manager in SPS-8 pay scale and will be required to serve in SUPARCO for a minimum period of five years.
		SUPARCO’s scholarship will be to the extent of exemption of 25% tuition fee or award of Rs 10,000/- per semester.
	ist.edu.pk /finprog.htm (386 words)

	SUPARCO - Summary
		Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) was established in 1961.
		SUPARCO implements the space policy established by the Space Research Council (SRC), whose president is the Prime Minister.
		SUPARCO's programs include the development and launch of sounding rockets, and satellite applications in the field of remote sensing and communications.
	www.spaceandtech.com /spacedata/orgs/space-agencies/suparco-sum.shtml (51 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: Pakistan: Missile Facilities
		Primary Function: The SUPARCO plant in Karachi was built in the mid-1980s to manufacture sounding rockets for upper atmosphere research.
		Although sounding rockets are used for upper atmosphere-related civilian research programs, SUPARCO is believed to have modified French Dauphin and Dragon sounding rockets to produce the solid-fueled Hatf-I and Hatf-II short-range ballistic missiles.
		SUPARCO and its subordinate agencies have been repeatedly sanctioned by the US government for transactions involving violations of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
	www.thenti.com /e_research/profiles/Pakistan/Missile/3294_3332.html (351 words)

	Suparco \| Pakistan Defence Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The former Chairman of Suparco, Dr. Salim Mehmud, appreciated the directives of the president regarding manufacturing and launching of a multipurpose satellite.
		One of the achievements of Suparco is upgrading the Satellite Ground Receiving Station at Rawat.
		Suparco has successfully applied satellite images for survey of natural resources.
	www.pakistaniforces.com /forums/showthread.php?t=935&goto=nextoldest (915 words)

	PakPassion - Pakistan Cricket Forum - Pakistan to launch its own Satellite Vehicle(SLV)
		In January 1989, Suparco successfully launched a multistage space launch vehicle to an altitude of 480~600 km.
		Furthermore, Suparco faced strict sanctions on the import of several materials required to launch and manufacture rockets during the early 90's.
		Therefore it is fair to assume that the boosters on the second model might also be based on one of Pakistan's ballistic missiles.
	www.pakpassion.net /ppforum/archive/index.php/t-4074.html (835 words)

	Suparco to build new satellite - PakDef Forums
		Only SUPARCO can tell exactly what they want to achieve., and their estimates on cost are likely to be based on their ambitions.
		SUPARCO should concentrate on RandD on the payload as most of the platform can be made using off the self components hence the scope for RandD is limited.
		SUPARCO is just a measure of our success in being close to the West for learning in scientific as well as other fields.
	www.pakdef.info /forum/showthread.php?t=5729 (2120 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Musharraf calls for putting Pakistan on world's Map of Space
		The government also brought SUPARCO under the umbrella of the National Command Authority, at par with other strategic organizations, while realizing the immense potential that space offers in the socio-economic development and security of the country.
		President Musharraf recalled his visit to SUPARCO last year and said he was happy to see progress and turn around brought about by the motivated team of young engineers and technicians.
		Giving his vision of Pakistan's Space Programme, he asked the SUPARCO to develop the country's capacity to make and launch different types of satellites, especially communication, remote sensing and meterological satellites.
	www.pakistantimes.net /2006/08/13/top4.htm (650 words)

	NTI: Country Overviews: Pakistan: Missile Facilities
		Primary Function: The SUPARCO plant in Karachi was built in the mid-1980s to manufacture sounding rockets for upper atmosphere research.
		Although sounding rockets are used for upper atmosphere-related civilian research programs, SUPARCO is believed to have modified French Dauphin and Dragon sounding rockets to produce the solid-fueled Hatf-I and Hatf-II short-range ballistic missiles.
		SUPARCO and its subordinate agencies have been repeatedly sanctioned by the US government for transactions involving violations of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
	www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/Pakistan/Missile/3294_3332.html (353 words)

	Business Recorder [Pakistan's First Financial Daily]
		The President said that as an established and well recognised nuclear and missile power, Pakistan's graduation to a power in space technology must be the next logical frontier in taking the country forward in the comity of technologically advanced nations of the world.
		The President was speaking to the scientists and engineers of Pakistan's space agency Suparco during a visit to its plant near Karachi.
		President Musharraf said it was incumbent on Suparco that with all the financial and administrative backing of the government it must deliver on the objectives of the space vision.
	www.brecorder.com /index.php?id=172458&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= (442 words)

	GIS News:Pakistan to build, launch its own satellite
		Former Suparco chairman Dr Salim Mehmud, when contacted, appreciated the directives of the resident regarding manufacturing and launching of a multi-purpose satellite indigenously.
		Dr Mehmud said that some of the achievements of Suparco are upgrading the Ground Satellite Receiving Station at Rawat.
		Besides conducting feasibility studies for remote sensing and communication satellites, the Suparco has made deep studies on development of satellite launch vehicle to launch the proposed satellites into space.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_lavichwnex (242 words)

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		In January 1989, Suparco successfully launched a multistage space launch vehicle to an altitude of 480-600 km.
		Furthermore, Suparco faced severe sanctions on the import of several materials required to launch and manufacture rockets during the early 1990s.
		Shahpar is a 7 meter solid fuel two stage rocket that can carry a payload of 55 kg to an altitude of 450 km.
	www.looked.com /Topicdetails.aspx?Topicid=37808&name=&catid=17&topicname=Pakistan's_Satellite_Launch_Vehicle (805 words)

	Suparco to build first indigenous satellite [Archive] - Defence Talk Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		KARACHI: The Pakistanâs Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) is drafting a feasibility report to build countryâs first indigenous satellite at an estimated cost of $200 million under National Satellite Development Programme (NSDP) within five years, the Suparco chief, Maj Gen Raza Hussain, said.
		Talking to journalists after attending the inaugural session of Suparcoâs short-training course on âenvironmental pollution monitoringâ on Monday, he said that Pakistan had earlier deployed a communication satellite Paksat-1 at 38 degree East longitude in the Geostationary Orbit in December 2002 as an interim solution to save the orbital slot.
		According to the Suparco chief, a committee, headed by minister of IT, will evaluate the feasibility report before giving a green-signal for the satellite development with any international manufacturing party.
	www.defencetalk.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-1895.html (1388 words)

	ARRLWeb: Space & Beyond: Pakistan's New Moon
		Several SUPARCO personnel completed master's degrees in engineering at England's University of Surrey--the institution that built and operated numerous small satellites such as the UO-9, UO-11 and UO-22 hamsats.
		Pakistan Amateur Radio Society, engineers who were hams at SUPARCO in Lahore began building a small hamsat during the last half of 1986.
		SUPARCO engineers later built a second satellite, Badr-2 or Badr-B, which did not contain an Amateur Radio payload.
	www2.arrl.org /news/features/2003/07/10/1/index.html (889 words)

	Suparco’s Space Week 2006 kicks off - .::UrbanPK::.
		The inaugural ceremony was held in Islamabad on Monday in which panel discussions were arranged to highlight the importance of space science and technology and its useful application in Pakistan.
		It may be recalled that The General Assembly of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COUOS) had declared in 1999 that the WSW should be celebrated by all the nations of the world from October 4 to 10 each year.
		SUPARCO was unable to celebrate the week because it coincided with the holy month of Ramazan and after consultation with Space Week International Association (SIA), it decided the new dates for the celebrations.
	www.urbanpk.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1522 (354 words)

	PAKISTAN SPACE AND UPPER ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH COMMISSION
		Courses: As national coordinator for remote sensing in Pakistan, SUPARCO organizes short training courses on annual/biannual basis to acquaint the national users with applications of satellite remote sensing data and GIS for resource and environmental surveying.
		A large volume of Landsat TM and SPOT XS/PAN data covering the whole of Pakistan and a limited amount of SIR-A, IKONOS and CZCS data are available which are being used by SUPARCO as well as the national user agencies for various application studies.
		SUPARCO also has sophisticated ground-receiving station for acquisition of NOAA APT pictures.
	www.inpe.br /unidades/cep/atividadescep/EducationDirectory/continent/asia/pakistan/suparco.htm (440 words)

	India caused fog in our country: Pak
		The Dawn reported that SUPARCO officials shared these findings informally with Indian experts several times, but India claimed the fog in Pakistan Punjab was the result of massive vehicular pollution.
		The Centre’s denial has forced SUPARCO to conduct a detailed investigation to substantiate its earlier findings, so that Islamabad can raise the issue formally.
		The Director-General of SUPARCO, Air Commodore (Retired) Arshad Siraj, was quoted as saying that a three-year study had been launched to further find the sources of pollutants causing smog in Punjab and the impact on the nation’s economy and health.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/pak-blames-india-for-fog/top/30650-2.html?xml (283 words)

	IRIB PERSIAN NEWS PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The daily called `the news' added that state-run space and upper atmospheric research commission (SUPARCO) has been reorganized.
		"Up till now SUPARCO has manufactured weather forecast satellites, which have been launched through the satellite launcher of a friendly country," reported the daily.
		According to the daily, SUPARCO has also put into operation the aerospace institute.
	www.iribnews.ir /Full_en.asp?news_id=189378 (177 words)

	Pakistan 2005
		The panel of experts comprised: Mr Raza Hussain, Chairman SUPARCO; Mr Arshad Hussain Siraj, Director General, Space Applications and Research, SUPARCO; Mr Usman Bajwa, CEO, PAKSAT International (Pvt) Ltd; Mr Shahid Qureshi, Incharge, Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics (ISPA) KU and Mr Arif Abbasi, ex-secretary, PIA planetarium.
		Seven scientific/technical papers were presented by scientists/professors from SUPARCO and the KU.
		Different stalls were arranged to attract general masses specially students to create the awareness of space.
	www.spaceweek.org /pakistan_2005.html (553 words)

	Pakistan Derives its First "Hatf" Missiles from Foreign Space Rockets
		SUPARCO also built rocket test facilities, chemical and propellant laboratories, high-speed tracking radar and a laboratory to work on telemetry.
		U.S. officials tell the Risk Report that Pakistan's first surface-to-surface missile is based on French sounding rocket technology an observation seconded by S. Chandrashekar, an engineer with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), who points to the similarities between the technical specifications of the Hatf missile and France's Dauphin rocket.
		In 1981, the head of SUPARCO announced plans to test a launcher by 1986, and the Pakistani press reported in early 1989 that a multi-stage rocket had successfully launched a 150-kilogram payload over 600 kilometers into "deep space."
	www.wisconsinproject.org /countries/pakistan/hatf.html (653 words)

	Sonmiani
		1966 January 12 12:30 - SUPARCO 19/66 Aeronomy mission Launch Vehicle: Judi-Dart.
		Judi-Dart SUPARCO 23 Apogee: 62 km (38 mi).
		Judi-Dart SUPARCO 24 Apogee: 66 km (41 mi).
	www.astronautix.com /sites/sonmiani.htm (1103 words)

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