Pakistan announced that it will send its first astronaut to space in 2022 using close ally China’s satellite launch facilities.
In 2018, Pakistan launched two indigenously built satellites, onboard the Chinese Long March (LM-2C) rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre located at the Gobi Desert.
One of them was a remote sensing satellite (PRSS1) — a dualpurpose Earth observational and optical satellite.
The second test satellite launched was a PAK-TES-1A to enhance satellite manufacture capabilities in the country.