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There indeed is evidence that Iran is contemplating the development of a much larger rocket beyond the Simorgh.

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Note how the cell is designed to support a much wider and taller booster than the Safir which is one of Iran’s standard launchers.
 
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Iranian images of facilities at the new Space Research and Test Center near the town of Semnan show facilities that are much larger than the Safir boosters undergoing processing in the images. The same facilities will be used for the Simorgh booster but , are still larger than that vehicle.
 
Director of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the Islamic Republic plans to send human beings to half-hour space missions in four years.

In a Saturday interview, Fazeli pointed to Iran’s plans to send big animals, including chimpanzees, into the space in the near future and noted that the next phase of the project is to send human beings aboard a bio-capsule to a specific altitude into the outer space and returning them within less than 30 minutes.

The ISA director pointed out that that so far only three countries have achieved the know-how.

“The plan for sending and returning humans to and from the space will be carried out by the next four years and the plan for sending a human being into the space and putting him into the earth’s orbit will be launched in the next 10 years,” Fazeli said.

On Tuesday, the ISA announced that Iran will send animals into the space aboard a bio-capsule, code-named Pishgam (Pioneer), during the 10-Day Dawn celebrations in early February 2013, which will mark the 34th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.

Due to biological similarities between humans and monkeys, the latter were selected for the forthcoming space mission.

Iran launched its first indigenous satellite, Omid (Hope), in 2009. The country also sent its first bio-capsule containing living creatures into the space in February 2010, using the indigenous Kavoshgar-3 (Explorer-3) carrier.

In June 2011, Iran put the 15.3-kilogram Rasad (Observation) orbiter in space. Rasad's mission was to take images of the Earth and transmit them along with telemetry information to the ground stations.

Iran also launched Navid-e Elm-o Sanat (Harbinger of Science and Industry), another indigenous satellite, into the orbit on February 3, 2012.

The satellite was a telecom, measurement and scientific one, whose records were reportedly used in a wide range of fields.

Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which was set up in 1959.
 
well done , the best advantage of this work will be that we will slap and kick the as s of US like that she's a wh ore...
 
There indeed is evidence that Iran is contemplating the development of a much larger rocket beyond the Simorgh.

iRAN_pIX_6_TEST_CELL.jpg


Note how the cell is designed to support a much wider and taller booster than the Safir which is one of Iran’s standard launchers.

Yea, I have said this earlier. The explosion in that military base occurred when they were conducting research for a Solid Fuel SLV. It will definitely be bigger than the Simorgh. I cannot wait until they unveil the Simorgh.

Also do you have link pictures of the new space centre?
 
ISA Underscores Iran's Achievements, Plans in Space Fields

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli lauded the country's achievements in the space field, specially its plans for sending big animals and even human being to short and long space journeys in the not far future.

Fazeli said the country plans to first send big animals, including chimpanzees, into the space in the near future and then send human beings aboard a bio-capsule to a specific altitude into the outer space and return them within less than 30 minutes.

"The plan for sending and returning humans to and from the space will be carried out by the next four years and the plan for sending a human being into the space and putting him into the earth's orbit will be launched in the next 10 years," Fazeli added.

The ISA head pointed out that so far only three countries have achieved the know-how.

On January 8, Secretary of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution Mokhber Dezfouli said that Iran has prepared plans to send more living creatures into the space on the back of its home-made rockets.

"The aerospace plan is a single document for the country based on which we are seeking to send living creatures into the space," Mokhber Dezfouli said in Tehran at the time.

He expressed the hope that sending living creatures by Iran will be a prelude to sending human beings into the space.

In relevant remarks in March 2012, Fazeli announced that the country plans to send a monkey into the space on the back of Kavoshgar (Explorer) 5 rocket in the near future.

He said that the Iranian shuttle, Kavoshgar-5 carrying monkey to space will be launched into space during March-August 2012.

"Kavoshgar-5 will carry a biological capsule containing a monkey into space. This is actually a prelude to preparing Iran for sending a human astronaut into space before 2021," Fazeli said at the time.

In mid-March 2011, Iran's space organization announced the launch of the Kavoshgar-4 rocket carrying a test capsule designed to house the monkey.

The capsule had been unveiled in February 2011 by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, along with four new prototypes of home-built satellites.

At the time, Fazeli called the launch of a large animal into space as the first step towards sending a man into space, which Tehran says is scheduled for 2020.

Iran has already sent small animals into space - a rat, turtles and worms - aboard a capsule carried by its Kavoshgar-3 rocket in 2010.

The Islamic republic, which first put a satellite into orbit in 2009, has outlined an ambitious space program and has, thus far, made giant progress in the field despite western sanctions and pressures against its advancement.
 
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