Pakistan's ICUBE-Q Satellite Released Into Lunar Orbit By China

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China's Chang'e-6 moon mission has released Pakistan's ICUBE-Q satellite into lunar orbit and it has delivered imagery.   Credit: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta

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00:00One week into Chang'e-6 mission, one of the international payloads on board,

00:04Pakistan's Cube satellite, iCubeQ, has been released into lunar orbit and has started working.

00:11On Friday, a data delivery ceremony for the Cube satellite was held in Beijing.

00:17The first photos taken by it were also made public, including a picture of the moon.

00:22The Cube satellite mission on board Chang'e-6 has been declared a complete success.

00:29This is a very enormous, momentous event for us,

00:33because this is the first ever mission to the moon for Pakistan,

00:37and that too with the help of Chinese friends, and that is a great day for us.

00:45We are looking towards all domains of satellite technology,

00:52be it remote sensing, be it the navigation, and be it the communication satellites.

00:58Subsequently, we have a number of launches from China,

01:05and that shows the good cooperation going on.

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