Iran Press/Iran news: Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet session in Tehran on Wednesday, Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami highlighted Iran’s progressing and perpetual trend in the satellite industry by saying that the Islamic Republic is able to put satellites in the 260-kilometer orbit.
Back on February 2, 2009, Iran successfully launched into orbit its first indigenous data-processing satellite, Omid (Hope), Iran Press reported.
As part of a comprehensive plan to develop its space program, Iran also successfully launched its second satellite, dubbed Rassad (Observation), into the earth’s orbit in June 2011.
Rassad’s mission was to take images of the earth and transmit them along with telemetry information to ground stations.
The country’s third domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat (Harbinger of Science and Industry) satellite was sent into orbit in February 2012.
In January 2013, Iran sent a monkey into space aboard an indigenous bio-capsule code-named Pishgam (Pioneer).
On Tuesday, Jan. 15, Iran launched a satellite, dubbed Payam, into space. Payam satellite got through two successful stages after launch, but the satellite did not reach enough speed in the third stage, and consequently was not placed into orbit.
The domestically manufactured ‘Payam’ satellite is made by Iranian scientists at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) in Tehran.
Iranian Minister of communication and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi emphasized that the program to construct and launch new satellites in Iran will continue with strength.
Officials say Iran still plans to launch another low Earth orbit satellite, Doosti (Friendship in Persian), in the near future. 101/201
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