MNA Nahid-1 telecommunication satellite is ready to be delivered to Defense Ministry within few days for being launched, Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari-Jahromi announced on Tuesday. It is a home-grown telecommunication satellite and can stay in space for 2.5 month, 250 kilometers away from earth,...

IRNA Doosti (Friendship) Satellite, the only fully domestic Iranian made satellite, will be launched in the coming few weeks, said official of the Sharif University of Technology of Tehran on Thursday. 'More than fifty patented technologies have been used in the satellite,' said Hossein Mokhtari. Regarding Payam satellite, he said if the satellite ...

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday that an Iranian-made satellite named Payam will be put into orbit at 600 kilometers altitude above Earth in the near future. Rouhani made the announcement while addressing a group of people in Golestan province during his provincial visit on Monday. He said homegrown Payam satellite will be put ...

MNA Head of Irans Space Research Center has predicted that Irans first operational satellite Saha and 'Nahid-2' telecommunication satellite will be completed next year. According to Hassan Hadadpour, head of Space Research Center of Iran, on Wednesday Iran needs extra efforts to reach the first place in space industry in the region while it ...

FNA- Head of the Iran Space Research Center Hassan Haddadpour announced that the country will orbit 4 new home-made sensing and telecommunication satellites in the next four years. "If all sections are developed based on the roadmap of the country's space plan, we will have three sensing satellites and a telecommunication-operational satellite in ...

Tasnim Irans Minister of Communication and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said the country has three satellites that are ready to be launched in due time. Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Monday, Azari Jahromi praised Irans progress in the space industry and said the country always needs to develop the strategic industry ...

Tehran, July 25, IRNA Deputy Head of Iranian Space Agency Jafar Roshanian said on Monday that Mesbah satellite jointly developed by Iran and Italy is ready to be launched. Mesbaha satellite, which is ready to be put in the orbit, weighs 75 kilograms, Roshanian said. He said that Nahid satellite is also under final stages of its construction. Deupty ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran will likely send a new home-made satellite into the orbit before the end of the current Iranian year (which ends on March 19, 2016), a space official announced on Sunday. "We may have a launch by Esfand (the last month of the Iranian year - February 20-March 19)," Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Mohsen Bahrami said in Tehran ...

Khorramabad, July 23, IRNA - Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi said on Thursday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to produce the first home-made national satellite. Preliminary measures to manufacture the first home-made satellite has already been taken, he said. Speaking to reporters, he ...

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TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Iran is preparing to send into orbit three new home-made satellites, Vice President for Executive Affairs Mohammad Shariatmadari was quoted as saying by Iran daily on Sunday. "Tadbir, Sharif Sat and Fajr satellites are all in the final stages and ready for launching," Shariatmadari said. He declined to specify dates ...