The Badr-B (Urdu: بدر-۲; also known as Badr-II, meaning Full Moon-2) was the second spacecraft and the first Earth observation satellite launched into Sun-synchronous orbit on 10 December 2001 at 09:15 by SUPARCO — Pakistan's national space agency.

[2] Badr-B was a microsatellite, weighing approximately 70 kg, and contained a computerized system to conduct studies on gravity gradients.

[2] The Badr-B payload was equipped with several CCD cameras, compact dosimeter, a telemetry system, charge detector and a temperature control unit.

[2] It is intended to complete and update the Islamabad Mission Control Center (IMCC) and to test the remote sensing CCD instruments.

The United Kingdom's Space Innovations Limited, plc (SIL) also joined this programme in 1993 as it had constructed the instrumentation of this satellite.

[4] A Mission control center was established at Islamabad where several supercomputers and its systems were installed by Space Innovations Limited.

[9] In 2001, the Air Force Strategic Command flew the Badr-B to Kazakhstan where it was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 10 December 2001 abroad a Ukrainian Zenit-2 rocket.

[10] The gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar arrays were used to provide and generate the electronic power during the sunlit periods.

[10] Earth pointing single axis stabilization was achieved by the use of a 6 m gravity gradient boom with a trip mass of 4 kg.

[9] Astrophysicist Shahid Kureshi also argued that [IRBM] missiles have very robust and effective electronics and computer system, the [SLV]s used the similar technology.

[7] After receiving criticism from the scientific society, the SUPARCO succeeded in a talks held with Russian Federal Space Agency on a possible low rates.

[4] A high level delegation of SUPARCO headed by Major-General Raza Hussain arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to witness the launch.