Iran Mulls Russian Military Aircraft Purchase, Joint Space Projects
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Iran is holding active talks with Russia on the purchase of at least two types of military aircraft, Iranian Vice President Sorena Sattari told the Russian Kommersant daily.
"The relevant talks are going well," Sattari said, adding that he cannot give any further details on the possible contract at this point.
The vice president also said that Tehran is mulling the purchase of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane — a twin-engine regional passenger jet, which became available commercially in 2011.
"If Russia offers us [Iran] good financial terms, a lot of our airlines would be willing to take them [Superjet 100 aircraft]," he told Kommersant.
The sanctions imposed on the Iran by the United States in 1979 blocked Tehran from purchasing new airplanes and spare parts to repair the old ones. The lifting of anti-Iran sanctions, stipulated in the final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program reached in July, will give Tehran a chance to renew its aircraft fleet.
On Thursday, Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Andrei Boginsky told journalists at the MAKS-2015 air show outside Moscow that Iran is considering purchasing dozens of Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft.
According to Sattari, Iran is also interested in using Russian rocket carriers to launch satellites into orbit.
"It is important that this is done as part of joint projects. That is, so that we jointly develop and create satellites and cooperate in the sphere of space rocket construction," Iran’s Vice President told the Kommersant newspaper.
Sattari stressed that Russia has no competitors in the sphere of space technology.
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Iran, Russia Sign Deal to Build Satellite Observation Systems
Iran, Russia Sign Deal to Build Satellite Observation Systems
Tehran and Moscow have signed a cooperation agreement to build Iran's own remote-sensing satellite systems, a report said.
Two Russian space companies inked an agreement with an Iranian corporation on Tuesday to create Iran’s own satellite observation system, Sputnik News reported on August 25.
Remote-sensing systems are used to gather information about the Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
Russian company NPK BARL will be in charge of building the system’s ground infrastructure, while another Russian company, VNIIEM, will take care of building and launching the satellites. Iran’s Bonyan Danesh Shargh will be the operating company.
“The pre-contractual arrangement covers the development of an earth remote-sensing system based on an upgraded version of the Kanopus-V1 (Canopus-B) observation satellite,” Russia’s VNIIEM Corporation CEO Leonid Makridenko said.
"The launch on a Russian Soyuz carrier rocket is tentatively scheduled for 2018," he added.
According to the report, the agreement was signed in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin and Roscosmos General Director Igor Komarov.
Iran has in recent years made great headways in manufacturing satellites thanks to the efforts made by its local scientists.
The country successfully launched its first indigenous data-processing satellite, Omid (hope), into orbit back in 2009.
As part of a comprehensive plan to develop its space program, Iran also successfully launched its second satellite, dubbed Rassad (observation), into the earth's orbit in June 2011. Rassad's mission was to take images of the earth and transmit them along with telemetry information to ground stations.
The country launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat (harbinger of science and industry) satellite into orbit in February 2012.
In January 2013, Iran sent a monkey into space aboard an indigenous bio-capsule code-named Pishgam (pioneer).
And later in December that year, the country's scientists could successfully send a monkey, called ‘Fargam’ (auspicious), into space aboard Pajoheshan (research) indigenous rocket and return the live simian back to earth safely.
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Iran, Russia Sign Technology MoUs
Iran, Russia Sign Technology MoUs
On the 4th day of Iranian delegation visiting Moscow, new MoUs on technology-cooperation were signed, MNA reports.
Thursday, the fourth day of Iranian delegation headed by Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari in Moscow continued with new sittings and signings of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs).
According to the roadmap drafted in talks, Iran and Russia will cooperate extensively on areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology, aerospace, and engineering services.
During the current course of talks in Moscow, the Russian officials have continuously necessitated the expansion of cooperation especially in realms of science and technology.
Also Russian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of defense industry Dmitryi Rogozin told the reporters about the broadening of nuclear cooperation with Iran, on the sidelines of the negotiations in the Moscow town of Zhukovfsky.
Rogozin speculated that the two countries expand ties in different industries including air, sea, and space vessels.
Iran's Ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanaei has also been present in the talks since Monday.
Iran, Russia Sign Technology MoUs