TEHRAN (Tasnim) � A senior IRGC commander said Brigadier General Hassan Tehrani-Moqaddam, who was martyred in 2011, had drawn up a plan to enable Iran to acquire rockets capable of carrying satellites to the Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers.
�GEO is the highest orbit, approximately 36,000 kilometers (above the earth)� Martyr (Tehrani) Moqaddam�s goal was to obtain the satellite-carriers to reach the GEO orbit to (make Iran) have the highest class of satellite carriers,� Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force Brigadier General Seyed Majid Mousavi said.



He made the comments in an interview with a magazine titled �Uprising of Sejjils�, published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of initiation of Iran�s missile program.

The magazine, which derives its name from the indigenous missile �Sejjil�, contains information about the course of Iran�s progress in manufacturing different types of missiles over the past 30 years. It also pays special tribute to Brigadier General Hassan Tehrani-Moqaddam, known as the father of Iran's missile program.

Elsewhere in his comments, the commander said Tehrani-Moqaddam�s initial goal was to manufacture missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers, which suffice to hit the Israeli enemy from inside Iran.



After gaining the technology to produce missiles with that range, Tehrani-Moqaddam did not stop efforts to boost Iran�s capabilities and set targets in the sphere of space technology, Mousavi added.

Brigadier General Hassan Tehrani-Moqaddam, the highly revered commander famous for his work of pure genius in the field of missile technology, was martyred in an incident while conducting research on a missile project on November 12, 2011.



By Tasnim News Agency

 

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