 Since the early 1960s, when the second spaceflight of Rehbar-II weather rocket successfully took place to measure the upper atmosphere; the program gradually improved.In the 1980s, the Badr satellite program took place to counter the "Rohini" satellite, and was eventually launched by SUPARCO in 1990 in China.Since then, SUPARCO has an active satellite control program and controls various satellites, under the mutual agreement with the international community, from the Pakistan Mission Control Center (PMCC) located in SUPARCO headquarters.