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Iran should attempt another Ghaem-100 launch

So when is the next launch? Should be consider Simorgh as a retired SLV? No launch since December 2021! And what happened to Zuljanah SLV? Last flight test was in June 2022!

This foreign analysis was correct after all. Iran recently confessed to a failed launch of Ghaem-100/Nahid-1 in March 2023.

NK test fired Hwasong-18 solid fuel ICBM sucessfully for 2nd time recently. This missile first stage has more than double the thrust of Iran's Raafe solid fuel motor (140 tons vs 68 tons). NK is advancing repaidly in liquid fuel rocket tech thorugh Hwasong-15/17 and solid fuel rocket tech via...

Sooo.....Iran space program dead? What happened to the "Raisi" lead turn around of the Iranian space program. So much boasting about sending 500kg to LEO by 2025 in 2021-2022 and now nothing but silence. All talk and no action. Iran should cancel its failed space program and use the funds...

Yes but it also had the most launches of any Iranian SLV. So more failures is expected. Yes you are quite right. Without hard evidence all we can do is speculate which is what we are doing. Iranian's prior to 2019 never used to disclose launch failures. I remember in July 2017 a Simorgh launch...

Yes it was weak but it was functional. It launched four satelites into orbit successfully during it's lifetime (Omid, Rasad, Navid and Fajr). It was a good starter launch vehicle and should be flying to this day given iran's space program is still in beginning stages since last 10-15 years...

Being back Safir SLV. It was a good launcher for <100kg satellites.

Another Simorgh launch coming soon. It might work this time.

Salman is second stage of Qased SLV so it does not reach orbit. Iran put the third stage of that rocket a solid motor called Arash-24 into orbit. Its mass is only around 100kg. Upper stages are useless once orbit is achieved it is the mass of the satellite that matters.

Nonsense. They designed/developed/tested/qualified/flight tested the engines themselves. This is no longer the same NK that was struggling with Unha-2/3 in late 2000s. While iran has stagnated in this field NK has invested heavily in R&D efforts and they have started to payoff in recent years...

They should just bring back Safir SLV which can launch 50 kg into orbit. I doubt Qased can even launch 20kg into orbit.

lool this is the problem with you iranian folk. Have little success and get way too overconfident. Placing 10-20 kg into 500km orbit when safir was lifting 50kg to similar orbit 10 years ago means iran's space program has gone backward not forward. These qased launches only launch small tumbling...

Simorgh can become a successful SLV when burn time of upper stage is cut in half and a small solid motor is added as a second stage. Simorgh keeps failing because R-27 vernier engines in upper stage are being pushed well beyond their intended burn time. (~500 seconds vs rated ~250) Current...

That is usual Iranian tactic of covering up failure. So many Safir launches were covered up this way in early 2010s. Blast scar at launch pad means ignition of a rocket engine which means a launch or some kind of on pad failure. It is not the same photo. The one attached in my post is from...