Summary
- Pakistan’s lunar satellite iCube-Qamar transmitted first-ever images from the lunar orbit
- Designed by Islamabad’s Institute of Space Technology in collaboration with China’s Shanghai University and Pakistan’s national space agency Suparco
- iCube-Q will play a critical role in deep space missions, capturing and transmitting images of the moon back to Earth
- Part of China’s Chang’e-6 mission to explore the moon’s “dark side”
