MNA � Iranian researchers have successfully conducted the final tests of Nahid-1 telecommunication satellite, says the ICT minister.

�The final tests of Nahid-1 have been accomplished,� Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari-Jahromi wrote on Twitter late Tuesday.

Describing the test as a �beautiful achievement�, Jahromi highlighted, �No stop on the path to development!�

Earlier, the director of Iranian Space Research Center (ISRC) Hossein Samimi said just one step has remained for launching Nahid-1 satellite.

He noted that Nahid-1 project will be finalized and the satellite will be delivered for launching.

Nahid-1, which means �Venus� in Persian, is a Low-Earth orbit communications micro-class satellite, designed and developed by ISA in cooperation with the Iranian Space Research Center. The solar-powered satellite will be placed in the geosynchronous orbit for carrying out telecommunication missions.

A telecommunications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.

Iran successfully launched into orbit its first indigenous data-processing satellite, Omid (Hope) in February 2009.