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Class: Technology. Type: Communications. Nation: Pakistan. Experimental Pakistani payload.
SpecificationTotal Mass: 52 kg.
Badr Chronology
16 July 1990
Badr-A Launch Site: Xichang . Launch Vehicle: CZ-2E. Mass: 52 kg. Perigee: 208 km. Apogee: 988 km. Inclination: 28.5 deg. First launch of new Chinese L/V; experimental Pakistani payload.
Bibliography:- 2 - McDowell, Jonathan, The United Nations Registry of Space Objects, Harvard University, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/QEDT/jcm/space/un/un.html
- 6 - JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. HTML when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html
- 279 - McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. HTML when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html
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