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In Punjab though the solar calendar is generally followed, the lunar calendar used is purṇimānta, or calculated from the ending moment of the full moon: the beginning of the dark fortnight. [8] [9] Chait is considered to be the first month of the lunar year. [10] The lunar year begins on Chet Sudi: the first day after the new moon in Chet. [11]
On 16 July 1990, the Badr-1 was launched as a secondary payload on a Long March 2E rocket from Area No. 2 at XSLC. Badr-1, a low-Earth orbit satellite, circled the Earth's orbit every 96 minutes, passing over Pakistan for 15 minutes three to four times a day. Scientists, engineers, technicians, and designers who developed the satellite watched ...
The Islamic calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently it is 10 to 11 days shorter than the solar year, and as it contains no intercalation, [a] Ramadan migrates throughout the seasons.
Pakistan's climate varies from a continental type of climate in the north (Gilgit-Baltistan,Kashmir,KPK), a mountainous dry climate in the west (Baluchistan), a wet climate in the East (Punjab) an arid climate in the Thar Desert, to a tropical climate in the southeast (Sindh), characterized by extreme variations in temperature, both seasonally ...
The Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, [a] commonly referred to as SUPARCO, is the national space agency of Pakistan. [3]Established in 1961 in Karachi with an objective to learn the art of rocketry and high altitude research from the United States, the agency worked to develop the capacity for a national satellite program, eventually launching Pakistan's first satellite from China ...
A Geometric representation of a Lunar Eclipse. The Lunar prediction program (or SUPARCO New Moon prediction programme) is an active scientific mission of the Space Research Commission (SUPARCO), aims to conduct studies and predicts the appearances and phases of the Moon. [1] [2] On a regular and monthly basis, Suparco provides illustrative ...
Ruet-e-Hilal Committee. Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee ( Urdu: مرکزی رویتِ ہلال کمیٹی) of Pakistan is the department which announces the sighting of the new moon. Its head is now Maulana Abdul Khabir Azad [1] assisted by 150 observatories of the Pakistan Meteorological Department .
In 2018 the far side of the Moon was for the first time landed on by the Chang'e 4 mission at the South Pole–Aitken basin on 3 January 2019 and deployed the Yutu-2 rover. Five years later, China followed with Chang'e 6 sample return mission to the far side whose lander successfully landed in Apollo crater on 1 June 2024 and collected lunar ...