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Badr-B

Badr-B, also known as Badr-II, was Pakistan's SUPARCO-operated follow-on microsatellite to Badr-A, combining technology demonstration with Earth-observation experiments.^[1]^[2] It launched on 2001-12-10 from Baikonur on Zenit-2 as part of the Meteor-3M rideshare.^[1] The spacecraft used a box-shaped 68.5 kg microsatellite platform built by SUPARCO with gravity-gradient stabilisation.^[1] Its payload set included CCD camera payloads for Earth imaging, plus radiation and geophysical experiments.^[1]

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current status	Ended
operator	Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
platform	Badr-B microsatellite platform
launch vehicle	Zenit-2
Launched	2001-12-10
actual end of life	2012-01-01
orbit type	Sun-synchronous, about 986 x 1014 km, 99.7 deg
tasking supported	No
current geographic priority	Pakistan technology-demonstration and Earth-imaging experiments

Supply chain position

built on platform Badr-B microsatellite platform

operated by Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission

related to Land cover change

related to Atmospheric profiling

Sources

[1]Badr B, Gunter's Space Pagecommunity2026-06-21
[2]BADR-B, SUPARCOagency doc2026-06-21Legacy official page referenced by Gunter's Space Page; current fetch may require archive recovery.

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@misc{eoatlas:missions:badr-b,
  title = {Badr-B},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/missions/badr-b}
}