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(Reuters) - Iran has constructed a rocket-launching site that could be used for testing ballistic missiles, a report from a military intelligence publication said on Thursday.
Satellite imagery analyzed by Jane's Intelligence Review showed extensive construction over the last three years at a site of what Jane's says is a launch tower and pad, an area to prepare rockets for launch and an administration and support section.
The Islamic Republic has pursued ambitious goals to develop its space program in recent years. In January this year it demonstrated its missile delivery systems by launching a live monkey into space and returning it safely, officials said.
Western countries are concerned that long-range ballistic technology used to propel Iranian satellites into orbit could be put to delivering nuclear warheads.
Assertions about the site, near the town of Shahrud some 100 km (62 miles) northeast of Tehran, come weeks after Iranian officials said they would inaugurate a new space centre to launch satellites.
Jane's says the Shahrud site is one of three that will ultimately serve Iran's space program.
"Imagery analysis of the Shahrud site suggests it will be a strategic facility used to test ballistic missiles, leaving the other two sites free to handle Iran's ambitious program of satellite launches," said Jane's editor Matthew Clements.
Iranian officials were not immediately available for comment.
Iran's efforts to develop and test ballistic missiles and build a space launch capability have contributed to Israeli calls for pre-emptive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and billions of dollars of U.S. ballistic missile defense spending.
(Reporting by Marcus George; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky
Iran has new rocket site, ballistic missile tests possible: report | Reuters
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According to The Telegraph, the new site is close to Iran’s first space center in the northern Semnan province, and analysts' estimates suggest that it is designed to test ballistic missiles using solid fuel rather than launch space rockets, seeing as the site has no storage for the liquid rocket fuel used in the Iranian space program.
The IHS Jane’s Military and Security Assessments' images show a tall launch tower on a launch pad and an exhaust deflector.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4415225,00.html
It is similar to older Iranian space launch site But it is for solid fuel rocket ===> So:
Maybe this site has been made for launching the same solid fuel rocket that Iranian officials indicated to it for launching first Iranian satellite to GEO orbit. the same rocket that Tehrani Moghadam was working on it.
Remember recently western media reported Iran tested an ICBM engine
By considering the tower it is possible to estimate the rocket is a large rocket and if it is really a solid fuel rocket, it is not far-fetched if we estimate the rocket is in the size of an ICBM.
Satellite imagery analyzed by Jane's Intelligence Review showed extensive construction over the last three years at a site of what Jane's says is a launch tower and pad, an area to prepare rockets for launch and an administration and support section.
The Islamic Republic has pursued ambitious goals to develop its space program in recent years. In January this year it demonstrated its missile delivery systems by launching a live monkey into space and returning it safely, officials said.
Western countries are concerned that long-range ballistic technology used to propel Iranian satellites into orbit could be put to delivering nuclear warheads.
Assertions about the site, near the town of Shahrud some 100 km (62 miles) northeast of Tehran, come weeks after Iranian officials said they would inaugurate a new space centre to launch satellites.
Jane's says the Shahrud site is one of three that will ultimately serve Iran's space program.
"Imagery analysis of the Shahrud site suggests it will be a strategic facility used to test ballistic missiles, leaving the other two sites free to handle Iran's ambitious program of satellite launches," said Jane's editor Matthew Clements.
Iranian officials were not immediately available for comment.
Iran's efforts to develop and test ballistic missiles and build a space launch capability have contributed to Israeli calls for pre-emptive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites and billions of dollars of U.S. ballistic missile defense spending.
(Reporting by Marcus George; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky
Iran has new rocket site, ballistic missile tests possible: report | Reuters
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
According to The Telegraph, the new site is close to Iran’s first space center in the northern Semnan province, and analysts' estimates suggest that it is designed to test ballistic missiles using solid fuel rather than launch space rockets, seeing as the site has no storage for the liquid rocket fuel used in the Iranian space program.
The IHS Jane’s Military and Security Assessments' images show a tall launch tower on a launch pad and an exhaust deflector.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4415225,00.html
It is similar to older Iranian space launch site But it is for solid fuel rocket ===> So:
Maybe this site has been made for launching the same solid fuel rocket that Iranian officials indicated to it for launching first Iranian satellite to GEO orbit. the same rocket that Tehrani Moghadam was working on it.
Remember recently western media reported Iran tested an ICBM engine
By considering the tower it is possible to estimate the rocket is a large rocket and if it is really a solid fuel rocket, it is not far-fetched if we estimate the rocket is in the size of an ICBM.
