ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s historic lunar mission (ICUBE-Q) is scheduled to launch on Friday, May 3, on board China’s Chang’E6 from Hainan, following India’s Chandrayaan-3 moon landing last year.
The Institute of Space Technology (IST) claims that it worked with Pakistan’s national space agency Suparco and China’s Shanghai University SJTU to design and develop the satellite ICUBE-Q.
The lunar surface is imaged by two optical cameras carried by the ICUBE-Q orbiter. Now that qualification and testing have gone well, ICUBE-Q has been successfully integrated into the Chang’e6 mission. The sixth in China’s series of lunar exploration missions is called Chang’e6.
