A meeting of ECNEC was conducted which was chaired by the Minister for Planning and Development Mr. Asad Umer and it was attended by the Minister for Industries Khusro Bakhtiar and federal secretaries. They all approved the Pakistan Optical Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS-02) project of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) worth Rs27.913bn
The project ensures to help in shaping an indigenous capacity in the field of space/satellite technology and its applications and institutional capacity building of Suparco which will promote high-tech research and development activities in the country. This project will contribute to the acquisition of self-reliance in satellite technologies in Pakistan.