{"id":67559,"date":"2020-07-05T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=67559"},"modified":"2020-07-03T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T12:41:33","slug":"pakistan-aims-generate-usd-700mn-satellite-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-aims-generate-usd-700mn-satellite-services.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan aims to generate USD 700mn through satellite services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Pakistan is looking to generate USD 700 million by filling the gaps in the regulatory and financial aspects of its local satellite services, a news source reported today (July 3). To this effect, the government aims to reduce the reliance on foreign and domestic funding through a comprehensive National Space Programme &#8211; which has been approved by the National Command Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-first-foreign-country-use-china-based-gps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan becomes first foreign country to use China-based GPS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the programme, services being provided by the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) are yet to be fully utilised as the domestic satellite market is unregulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the total capacity of 2,200 MHz is being utilised in Pakistan, out of which only 21% is being used by Pakistani satellites while the rest is being utilised through foreign satellites. Other regional countries have prohibited the use of foreign satellites to financially protect their local space programmes including China, India and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-satellite-tags-toconserve-indus-river-dolphins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to initiate \u2018satellite tagging\u2019 to conserve Indus River Dolphin species<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan is losing out on nearly USD 35-40 million each year, while at the same time, USD 22.48 million is pending in defaults owing to lack of regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan is looking to generate USD 700 million by filling the gaps in the regulatory and financial aspects of its local satellite services, a news source reported today (July 3). To this effect, the government aims to reduce the reliance on foreign and domestic funding through a comprehensive National Space Programme &#8211; which has been approved by the National Command Authority. Read: Pakistan becomes first foreign country to use China-based GPS Under the programme, services being provided by the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) are yet to be fully utilised as the domestic satellite market is unregulated. Currently, the total capacity of 2,200 MHz is being utilised in Pakistan, out of which only 21% is being used by Pakistani satellites while the rest is being utilised through foreign satellites. Other regional countries have prohibited the use of foreign satellites to financially protect their local space programmes including China, India and Bangladesh. Read: Govt to initiate \u2018satellite tagging\u2019 to conserve Indus River Dolphin species Pakistan is losing out on nearly USD 35-40 million each year, while at the same time, USD 22.48 million is pending in defaults owing to lack of regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":64102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[33702,33703],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-67559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-pakistan-aims-to-generate-usd-700mn-through-satellite-services","9":"tag-satellite-services","10":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan to generate USD 700mn through satellite service - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Pakistan is looking to generate USD 700 million by filling the gaps in the regulatory and financial aspects of its local satellite services, a news source reported today (July 3).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-aims-generate-usd-700mn-satellite-services.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan to generate USD 700mn through satellite service - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Pakistan is looking to generate USD 700 million by filling the gaps in the regulatory and financial aspects of its local satellite services, a news source reported today (July 3).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-aims-generate-usd-700mn-satellite-services.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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