Iran Press/ Iran News: In a meeting with several parliamentarians, Morteza Barari said on Sunday that the three new satellites and their launchers have been designed and manufactured by domestic experts and would be launched by the end of the current Iranian year.
Iran in recent years has made great headways in the space technology, thanks to the efforts made by its local scientists.
The country successfully launched its first indigenous data-processing satellite, Omid (Hope) into orbit in February 2009.
In February 2017, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani unveiled 3 new achievements in the space industry, including Payam, which has been made in Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology with the mission to take surveying images at resolutions below 40 meters.
In July 2017, Iran inaugurated the Imam Khomeini National Space Center with the successful test-launch of a homegrown satellite carrier dubbed Simorgh. The center administrates the development, launch, and navigation of Iranian satellite carriers.
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