{"id":23701,"date":"2025-01-08T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=23701"},"modified":"2025-01-08T04:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T04:17:17","slug":"suparco-to-develop-a-comprehensive-business-plan-for-paksat-mm1-ahsan-iqbal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=23701","title":{"rendered":"SUPARCO to develop a comprehensive business plan for PakSat-MM1, Ahsan Iqbal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250107-WA0097-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250107-WA0097-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250107-WA0097-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250107-WA0097-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250107-WA0097-1536x894.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG-20250107-WA0097-2048x1191.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman SUPARCO Meets Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad: Chairman of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Muhammad Yousaf Khan, met with Federal Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal. The meeting focused on various key intiatives including the commercialization of the recently launched PakSat-MM1 satellite and advancements in agricultural monitoring technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, the Federal Minister directed SUPARCO to develop a comprehensive business plan for PakSat-MM1. He emphasized the need to collaborate with the Ministry of Information Technology to formulate a detailed strategy for the satellite\u2019s commercialization to maximize its benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman SUPARCO briefed the Minister on the organization&#8217;s efforts in modern agricultural monitoring, which are helping farmers achieve improved crop yields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahsan Iqbal directed SUPARCO officials to integrate their efforts with the Land Information and Management System to collect consolidated data. He also stressed the importance of strengthening collaborations with other institutions to enhance the utility of satellite remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for improved business processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the Federal Minister reiterated plans to organize a symposium later this month under the banner of &#8220;URAAN Pakistan&#8221; at the Institute of Space Technology. The symposium, titled \u201cBeyond the Stars, New Worlds Await\u201d, aims to highlight emerging opportunities in space exploration and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman SUPARCO Meets Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal Islamabad: Chairman of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Muhammad Yousaf Khan, met with Federal Minister for Planning, Development,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[98,780,742],"class_list":["post-23701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-federal-minister-for-planning-and-development","tag-pakistan-satellite","tag-suparco-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23703,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions\/23703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}