Pakistan creating a national space policy
Pakistan, as a signatory to the Outer Space Treaty, is finally creating a national space policy as the treaty requires.
That policy however is not yet finalized, nor has it been published. The only information at the link states this:
Under the policy, a National Space Agency would be established in the country and satellite service providers who intend to provide satellite services in the country would be required to register themselves and obtain a non-objection certificate (NOC), sources added.
Bottom line: The government of Pakistan will retain full control over any future industry proposal.
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The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Pakistan, as a signatory to the Outer Space Treaty, is finally creating a national space policy as the treaty requires.
That policy however is not yet finalized, nor has it been published. The only information at the link states this:
Under the policy, a National Space Agency would be established in the country and satellite service providers who intend to provide satellite services in the country would be required to register themselves and obtain a non-objection certificate (NOC), sources added.
Bottom line: The government of Pakistan will retain full control over any future industry proposal.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I suspect the entire motivation for this move is to render Pakistan’s recent decision to throw in with the PRC on the International Lunar Research Station project at least marginally less farcical. The PRC will now no longer be vulnerable to jabs about recruiting participants for its space efforts that do not even have national space agencies. Given that Pakistan has avoided becoming the world’s second nuclear-armed failed state entirely due to PRC subsidy, it is hardly surprising that it is doing whatever little it can to minimize the public appearance of ridiculousness on the part of its benefactor.