{"id":11739,"date":"2024-05-09T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2024-05-09T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T04:22:20","slug":"pakistans-icube-q-satellite-has-achieved-successful-lunar-orbit-insertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=11739","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s ICUBE-Q satellite has achieved successful lunar orbit insertion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"11740\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FB_IMG_1715228301787.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FB_IMG_1715228301787.jpg 720w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FB_IMG_1715228301787-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/FB_IMG_1715228301787-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad : Pakistan&#8217;s first lunar mission, iCube Qamar, has been successfully deployed in orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has been told by a member of the core team at the Institute of Space Technology, Dr Khurram Khurshid while talking to a private tv channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the orbiter was successfully deployed in lunar orbit today at 1:14 pm Pakistn Standard Time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said it will take around a week to verify the operational readiness of the orbiter&#8217;s imaging system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first images from the moon are expected by May 15 or 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The iCube Qamar was launched on board China&#8217;s Chang&#8217;e-6 from Hainan, China, on May 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Pakistan&#8217;s first lunar mission, iCube Qamar, has been successfully deployed in orbit. This has been told by a member of the core team at the Institute of Space&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[336,791,752],"class_list":["post-11739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-technology","tag-china-satellite","tag-pakistan-satellite","tag-space-university-islamabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11741,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions\/11741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}