Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   No Halt to Irans Enrichment R&D: Source A source close to Irans team of nuclear negotiators rejected reports that the country might refrain from testing new models of centrifuge machines used to enrich uranium, stressing that research and development activities in the enrichment ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Head of Iran's Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli said the country is preparing to launch another indigenously-made satellite into space late in January. The ISA official announced that Sharif Sat' built by Iranian experts at Sharif University of Technology, Fajr (Dawn) Satellite and Tadbir (Wisdom) satellites are ready to be sent ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran is preparing to orbit three new home-made satellites, called Zafar (Triumph), Tolou (Sunrise) and Pars, from more powerful launchers and on the back of bigger carriers in the near future, an official announced on Saturday. Deputy Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli made the announcement on the sidelines of a ceremony ...

TEHRAN, May 28 (MNA) Iran has proposed joint training sessions with Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization to be held. Jalal Anvar the APSCO head had visited Iran to attend the International Workshop on Management of Space Programs and visited Irans Space Organization and Iran University of Science and Technology Research Center. The Workshop ...

Tehran, May 28, IRNA Three Iranian remote-sensing satellites of Zafar, Tolou and AutSat are slated for launch using Simorgh Launcher in the coming year (to start March 21, 2015), deputy head of Iran Space Agency said on Wednesday. The satellites are designed to gather data from the environment and forecast natural disasters. Talking to reporters ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran is preparing to orbit three new home-made satellites in the near future, a senior space official announced. "These three satellites have been ready for launch since last year and they are now only waiting for the Iranian Defense Ministry to send them into space," Deputy Head of Iran's Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli told reporters ...

Tehran, April 21, IRNA - A group of Iranian researchers have designed and built a laboratory space suit for suborbital missions. The suit is a combination of hi-tech systems protecting the astronaut, the English language newspaper ?Iran daily? reported on Monday. The suit is so important that the astronaut has no chance of survival without using ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran inaugurated a newspace research center in Tonekabon City, Mazandaran Province, northern part of the country on Monday, said Head of Iran's Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli. The 2500 cubic meter large center aims at conducting remote-sensing regional research, regional and international training and contacts, measuring celestial ...

Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) says the country plans to launch its first three telecom satellites into space within the next 5 years. The satellites, IranSat 1 to 3, will be Irans first telecom satellites with two FSS and BSS transponders, Hamid Fazeli said on Tuesday. ISA is also planning a joint project with Iran Defense Ministry to develop a ...

Iran is planning to launch Nahid, Qaem, and Fajr satellites on February 2nd 2013, the anniversary of Irans National Space Technology Day, The President of Iran Space Agency (ISA) said on Thursday. Semi-official Mehr News Agency quoted Hamid Fazeli as saying launching Engineering samples of Qaem, and Fajr satellites projects have been planned by the ...

Iran says it sent a monkey into space Monday. In previous flights it sent rats, worms, and turtles into space. But theUS worries it may be perfecting it's long-range missile technology. According to a brief report on state TV, the rocket dubbed Pishgam, or Pioneer in Farsi, reached a height of 120 kilometers (72 miles). The report gave no other details ...

(Reuters) - Iran has successfully launched a live monkey into space, the Fars news agency reported on Monday, lauding it as an advance in a missile and space program that has alarmed the West and Israel. There was no independent confirmation of the report and there have been no announcements by Western powers of any Iranian launch late last week. Fars ...

Iranwill send monkeysinto space next month as part of a plan to put humans into orbit, Hamid Fazeli, head of the countrysspace agencysaid. The monkeys that will be sent in a life capsule are for now in quarantine and are scheduled to be sent into space during the Fajr festival, Fazeli said according to theMehrstate-run news agency, referring to the ...

The Iranian authorities have announced their plans for space exploration in the coming year. Thus, the head of the Iranian Space Agency Hamid Fazeli said that the industry of the country has produced the new satellites "Nahid", "Out Sat" and "Sharif Sat", which will be launched in the first half of 2013. Fazeli said that the engineering model "Nahid" ...

Head of Iran's Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to launch two indigenous satellites into orbit by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2013). The launching of the two satellites, Fajr and Sharif Sat, by the end of the current year is on our agenda, Fazeli told reporters on Saturday. Pointing to the latest ...

Head of Irans Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to send a living organism into space on board the Pishgam (Pioneer) satellite carrier in the near future. Irans Space Agency (ISA) is fully prepared to send the Pishgam satellite carrier bearing a bio-capsule with a living creature, Fazeli said Sunday. He expressed hope that the ...

By Xinhua TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran Space Agency (ISA) Director Hamid Fazeli said the Islamic republic has the capability to launch nano-satellites weighing below 10 kg into space, Tehran Times daily reported Thursday. Some of Asian countries and an Austrian university have announced readiness to set their satellites into orbit using Iranian ...