High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paksat-1R (PAKSAT-1Replacement) is a geosynchronous communications satellite operated by Pakistan`s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission. It was launched on 11 August 2011 aboard a Long March 3B/E carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China`s Sichuan province. It is expected to replace PAKSAT-1 in geostationary orbit at 38° East.