scientific, and an amateur community experience in telemetry, tracking, control and data communications as the satellite successfully completed store and dump message tests for 5 weeks. Despite the international success gained, the Pakistans' accomplishments were kept quiet in the homeland to prevent any exploitation of their failures or loss of secrets, which undermined the propaganda opportunity. The Pakistan Television, a state-controlled media authority, announced the first launch in televisions never made a headline, and only fewer details were projected. The Badr-1 crushed the global perception that the country had not space program, and the space program was only dedicated to its military applications. The launch of the satellite united the people of Pakistan, and scientists who were involved in this project, were bestowed with national honours in public, and increased the pride of Pakistan. The satellite formed the derivatives and the basis of the Badr-B satellite. The Badr-B was more sophisticated than Badr-l, with a CCD camera for pictures of Earth and a system that allowed ground stations to change the satellite's direction in space. Mission goals acquiring know-how for indigenous development of satellites creating an infrastructure for future satellite development activities testing the performance of indigenously developed satellite subsystems in space environment performing experiments in real-time voice and data communications between two user ground stations demonstrating store-and-forward type message communication educating the country's academic, scientific and amateur community in the tracking and use of low-earth-orbiting satellites Technical configuration See also Badr-B Badr (satellite) Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission References External links Official SUPARCO site Space Today writeup ARRL site Satellites formerly orbiting Earth Badr satellites Space programme of Pakistan History of science and technology in Pakistan First artificial satellites of a country Government of Benazir Bhutto China–Pakistan relations Spacecraft launched in 1990