China launched the first satellite of a remote sensing constellation for Pakistan late Thursday( 16 January 2025), with two domestic spacecraft also along for the ride.

• A Long March 2D rocket lifted off at 11:07 p.m. Eastern, Jan. 16 (0407 UTC, Jan. 17) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.
• PRSC-EO1 is the first of a series of three optical remote sensing satellites for Pakistan, which will join the country’s existing remote sensing satellites, PRSS-1 and PakTES-1A, in orbit. 
• These satellites will provide data for the fields of land mapping, agriculture classification and assessment, urban and rural planning, environmental monitoring, natural disaster monitoring and management, surveying, natural resources protection and others uses, according to SUPARCO.