♦ China launched a Pakistani remote sensing satellite along with two of its own onboard a single rocket on 19 October 2025.

♦ A Lijian-1 Y8 carrier rocket carrying three satellites, Pakistan remote-sensing satellite (PRSS-2), AIRSAT 03 and 04 satellites, was launched from a commercial aerospace innovation pilot zone in northwest China.

♦ This is the third Pakistani satellite launched by China this year (2025).

♦ Earlier, it launched the Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite (PRSS-1) in July and PRSC-EO1 in January. 

♦ In 2018, China sent two Pakistan satellites into orbit -- the PRSS-1, the country's first optical remote sensing satellite, and the PakTES-1A, a smaller observation craft.