Bangabandhu Satellite-1 was launched at 20:14 UTC on May 11,
2018, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center.
On May 29 last year, Chowdhury had allegedly said at a function that Hasina's fate would turn out to be"worse" than that of her father and
country's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated in 1975.