The Government of Pakistan has granted federal charter to the Institute of Space Technology (IST) as the institute is considered a first rate institute and has been giving excellent performance for the last three years. The status was granted to the institute by the Federal Government un-der the Presidential Ordinance on Saturday 03 December.The institute was established under Space & Upper Atmosphere Re-search Commission (SUPARCO) in 2002 and is running BS and MS en-gineering programmes.