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Evolution of humanity was marked by vision. Such acumen sparked the treks of curiosity explorers. Caves, Forests, ancient kingdoms shed their secrets slowing, scholarship like industry. Assumed heightened dimensions. In this twenty-First Century, that dimension has evolved into space. Humanity has exceeded the reality of curiosity, galaxies and orbits can be the instruments of peace. Research  stands to improve developments in medicine advances were planetary life the abundant with minerals and soil replete with healing properties. If a system committed peace heads the launch to stars, aggressive and belligerent nations are able to extend their dictatorships.

We are The Wings of Tomorrow for Space

Mitt Romney Mocks China Space Program: "Take A Look At Our Flag On Moon"

Mitt Romney hopes the Chinese get a good look at the U.S. flag when they visit the moon.

According to ABC News, while campaigning in Florida Tuesday, the Massachusetts Governor told a crowd that he believes America is "still the greatest nation on Earth" and took aim at China's burgeoning space program:



“I know that China is planning on going to the moon, and I hope they have a good experience doing that... I hope they stop in and take a look at our flag that was put there 43 years ago!”

Recently, China has been ramping up its space program. In June it completed a formidable 10-day mission that carried three astronauts to an orbiting space laboratory, making it the third country after the United States and Russia to complete a manned space docking. That mission also saw China's first woman in space—astronaut Liu Yang conducted medical experiments aboard the orbiting Tiangong-1 laboratory.

NASA, on the other hand, has seen better days, with a proposed budget that includes deep cuts to planetary science and Mars programs in particular.

Romney continued his speech with a reference to the successful Mars rover landing earlier this month: "I know there are people around the world who are always critical of America, have something negative to say, say our greatest days are in the past. Baloney! We just won more Olympic medals than any other nation on earth. We also just landed on Mars and took a good look at what’s going on there.”

The Mars landing has been called "Very political,"—President Obama called JPL Monday to congratulate the program staff.

Pakistan Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission

Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) is Pakistan’s national space agency and was established in 1961 as a committee and was granted the status of a Commission in 1981. SUPARCO is devoted to Research and Development work in Space Sciences and Space Technology and their applications for the peaceful uses of outer space. It works towards developing indigenous capabilities in space technology and to promote space applications for socio-economic uplift of the country.

Badr-1 (Badr-A) was Pakistan's first indigenously developed satellite and was launched from the Xichang Launch Center, China on July 16, 1990 aboard a Chinese Long March 2E rocket. Badr-1 weighed 150 pounds. Originally designed for a circular orbit at 250-300 miles altitude, Badr-1 actually was inserted by the Long March rocket into an elliptical orbit of 127-615 miles. The satellite successfully completed its designed life.

SUPARCO started building the small amateur radio satellite in late 1986 with support from the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society. The satellite was named Badr inspired from the Urdu language word for 'new moon'. Badr-1 was planned to be launched on the US Space Shuttle, but the 1986 Challenger explosion and consequent delay in American flights changed the plan.

Pakistan’s second satellite was BADR-B. It was an Earth Observation Satellite and was launched on 10 December 2001 on a Zenit 2 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. It was designed by Space Innovations Limited from the UK.

British National Space Centre

The British National Space Centre (BNSC) was a body of Her Majesty's Government, organised in 1985, that coordinated civil space activities for the UK. It was replaced on 1 April 2010 by the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA)

BNSC operated as a voluntary partnership of ten British government departments and agencies and research councils. The civil portion of the British space programme focused on space science, Earth observation, satellite telecommunications, and global navigation (for example GPS and Galileo). The latest version of the UK civil space strategy which defined the goals of BNSC was published in February 2008.

Notably the BNSC had a policy against human spaceflight,[5] and did not contribute to the International Space Station.

The BNSC was the third largest financial contributor to the General Budget of the European Space Agency, contributing 17.4%,[11] to its Science Programme and to its robotic exploration initiative the Aurora programme.


The BNSC partnership co-funded a private sector project led by Avanti Communications to build a satellite called HYLAS to provide broadband communications to rural and remote users. Current projects in the field of space science include LISA Pathfinder, for which UK industry is the prime contractor and UK universities are building key payload elements

Successful launch for Europe’s newest weather satellite

The UK Space Agency is at the heart of UK efforts to explore and benefit from space. The UK's thriving space sector contributes £9.1 billion a year to the UK economy and directly employs 28.900 with an average growth rate of almost 7.5%. The Agency provides funding for a range of programmes via programmes such as the National Space Technology Programme and FP7 and works closely with national and international academic, education and community partners.

MetOp-B, the European polar orbiting weather satellite, was successfully launched on 17th September 2012 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

From its polar orbit 817 kilometres above Earth, MetOp-B will provide a broad range of measurements vital to weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

Designed and manufactured by Astrium, MetOp-B is the second in a series of three weather satellites that the European Space Agency (ESA) and Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, have commissioned from Astrium. The satellites are being launched at intervals of five to six years (MetOp-A was launched in 2006 and MetOp-C is scheduled for launch orbit at the end of 2017).

Weather monitoring satellites are essential in guaranteeing the safety of citizens, infrastructure and industry in Europe and elsewhere. They alone possess the capability to provide weather and climate data spanning the whole planet and on a continual basis.

The MetOp satellites carry a host of sensitive instruments to provide key information on many variables such as temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction over oceans, ozone and other atmospheric gases.

Since MetOp-A is still in service, the two satellites will orbit in tandem, increasing this wealth of data even further.