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  2. SUPARCO - Wikipedia

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    The past federal ministries of Pakistan initially avoided to fund the space program and engineering education in spite of opportunity available from the United States.: 235 [13] The Punjab University was the only university that was undertaking the research in aeronautics in 1957; only after when the former Soviet Union launched its first satellite in space, the Sputnik 1.

  3. Rocket science - Wikipedia

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    Rocket science is a colloquial term for aerospace engineering and orbital mechanics.. It may also include the chemistry and engineering behind rockets.. In popular terminology, it's not rocket science is a layperson's passive aggressive phrase uttered meaning something that is not difficult to understand to attack one's inactions that is a byproduct of anti-intellectualism.

  4. Aerospace engineering - Wikipedia

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    The term is used ironically in the expression "It's not rocket science" to indicate that a task is simple. [27] Strictly speaking, the use of "science" in "rocket science" is a misnomer since science is about understanding the origins, nature, and behavior of the universe; engineering is about using scientific and engineering principles to ...

  5. Badr-1 - Wikipedia

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    Badr-1 (Urdu: بدر-۱, meaning Full Moon-A) was the first artificial and the first digital communications satellite launched by Pakistan's national space authority — the SUPARCO — in 1990. [1]

  6. ICUBE-Q - Wikipedia

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    ICUBE-Q or ICUBE-QAMAR (Urdu: آئی کیوب-قمر) is a Pakistani lunar remote sensing observation nanosatellite and is one of the four international payloads of the Chang'e 6 lunar sample-return mission.

  7. Communism, capitalism, rocket science and baseball all once ...

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    Baseball may not be rocket science, but it can be a ticket on the way to the top. Hollace Ava Weiner, a former Star-Telegram reporter, is an author and archivist who grew up in the Nation’s ...

  8. List of Pakistani scientists - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Majid, rocket scientist and engineer; Abdul Qadeer Khan, metallurgical engineer; Abdullah Sadiq, nuclear physicist; Abdus Salam, theoretical physicist (Nobel Laureate 1979) Ahmad Hasan Dani, archaeologist; Ansar Pervaiz, nuclear scientist; Anwar Nasim, molecular biologist; Arif Zaman, mathematician and statistician; Asad A. Abidi ...

  9. Rocketry - Wikipedia

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    The design and construction of rockets. The hobbyist or (semi-)professional use of model rockets; Aerospace engineering, also known as rocket science; Amateur rocketry, a hobby in which participants experiment with fuels or custom rocket motors