Iran plans to send Fajr satellite into space within a month

[Arian]

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The Islamic Republic plans to send the Fajr (Dawn) satellite into space within a month, Director of Iran Space Agency Hamid Fazeli announced on Wednesday.

The Fajr satellite is a reconnaissance satellite powered by solar energy.

Speaking at a conference in K.N. Toosi University of Technology in Tehran, Fazeli said that Iran plans to send the satellite into space aboard the upgraded Safir one satellite carrier rocket.

Fazeli said that the launch of the satellite into the orbit will be a technological step forward in Iran’s space industry.

Iran has already sent three satellites into space. On February 3, the country successfully launched its third domestically manufactured satellite, named the Navid (Promise), into orbit. The Safir one satellite carrier rocket was used to launch the Navid research satellite.

Fazeli also said that the Islamic Republic will also put the satellites Nahid and Sharif University of Technology into orbit by the end of the Iranian calendar year, March 20.

He went on to say that Iranian space scientists are doing research to develop the technology to unfold solar panels through sending the Nahid satellite into space.

Fazeli said that if the manufacture of Simorgh satellite carrier rocket is completed, the satellite Tolou (Sunrise) and Zafar (Victory) will be launched into space by March 20.

The Zafar satellite will be used for remote sensing missions. The images taken by the satellite can be utilized in meteorology and for the demarcation of water borders and charting the topography of the tributaries of rivers.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Fazeli said that Iran Space Agency is working on a project to send living creatures to space within a few months.

Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which was set up in 1959.

Iran plans to send Fajr satellite into space within a month - Tehran Times

[Sher Malang]

Good going Iran, keep up the good work brothers!

[Abii]

"Fajr, is an imaging satellite which also carries an experimental locally made GPS system. The satellite will have a life span of 1.5 years and an imaging resolution of 500–1000 meters. It is the first Iranian satellite to use Pulsed plasma thruster. It is to be launched in 2012."

unrelated, but get the Simorgh SLV ready ffs. They're taking their sweet time.
we need to start sending heavier sats

[IbnAlwaled]

I see...
and when is your moon landing?
I assume mid August.

[JEskandari]

I see...
and when is your moon landing?
I assume mid August.

no , but it certainly is before your first space launch .

I see...
and when is your moon landing?
I assume mid August.

no , but it certainly is before your first space launch .

[nomi007]

I see...
and when is your moon landing?
I assume mid August.

dear iranian are more advance than you in space field

[Luftwaffe]

I see...and when is your moon landing? I assume mid August.

while They land on moon, meanwhile somewhere in the desert you people would be riding camels eh.

[Dark Warrior]

Iran has indeed advanced a lot in missile and space tech.

[Abii]

I see...
and when is your moon landing?
I assume mid August.

what does this even mean? Should I even get mad? I'm confused right now.

Do you realize that we've already sent three sats into orbit before (confirmed by NORAD)?

wahabi/saudi space agency's future space launch




enjoy camels

[Lone]

...I'm really impressed by the achievements that iran made under sanction. Keep it up...

[JEskandari]

wahabi/saudi space agency's future space launch

come on, they can't use that . Nāder Shāh Afshār patented that idea 300 years ago
in fact he made world first mechanized artillery
Nadir Shah, the Persian Napoleon

[King Solomon]

Those who underestimate Iran's missile capability should take lessons from this. Capability to indigenously launch satellites into orbit testifies Iran's great missile power and capability. Even pakistan still has to take China's help to launch satellites.

[BordoEnes]

Those who underestimate Iran's missile capability should take lessons from this. Capability to indigenously launch satellites into orbit testifies Iran's great missile power and capability. Even pakistan still has to take China's help to launch satellites.

Nobody denies Iran's achievement in Rocket Technology here, But sending sending decent normal sattelites in to space (around 250-350 kg) is still far away for iran. Dont get so existed yet, These are mere small and inferior sattelits, as you can see the life span is only 1,5 year.

[King Solomon]

Nobody denies Iran's achievement in Rocket Technology here, But sending sending decent normal sattelites in to space (around 250-350 kg) is still far away for iran. Dont get so existed yet, These are mere small and inferior sattelits, as you can see the life span is only 1,5 year.

If you give a glass half full to someone, some will say the glass is half full and some will say the glass is half empty. You obviously belong to the latter category and propagate negativity everywhere. Thus, it is futile to reason with people with such mental capacity as you.

Don't worry, at current pace, Iran would achieve much more than its counterparts. And your Turkey just launched one satellite till now as far as I recall, while Iran already launched 3 spy satellites with payloads of 50-100 kg.

[Arian]

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Nobody denies Iran's achievement in Rocket Technology here, But sending sending decent normal sattelites in to space (around 250-350 kg) is still far away for iran. Dont get so existed yet, These are mere small and inferior sattelits, as you can see the life span is only 1,5 year.

You can't call them inferior satellites, it's not because of the weight that the life span is only 1.5 years, but it's because the satellite will be injected into the LEO. The LEO is more polluted with objects orbiting around the earth that could be destructive for the satellite but as you go higher and higher from the earth like in GEO there would be much less objects orbiting the earth so the satellite would have a higher life span. Iran could advance easily if it wants, but Iran must be very cautious because any GEO launch by Iran would put Iran under severe embargoes because the west will use it as a pretext that Iran is after ICBM technology to hit them.