Iran to send living creature into space

[SOHEIL]

Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) says the country will launch the first bio-capsule carrying a living creature into space within the next two months.

Hamid Fazeli told reporters on Wednesday that the national project will be carried out by sending a monkey into space using a new bio-capsule.

“The results of this space journey will get our country one step closer to putting humans into space,” he added.

According to Fazeli, ISA scientists are designing and manufacturing a new bio-capsule an example of which was launched into space last winter.

Since it returned to Earth, we have been trying to upgrade it by “solving its problems and [boosting] its technical features,” he noted.

Fazeli added that launching the new bio-capsule in the next two months will be Iran's first step towards dispatching human beings into space, which will be first sent to an altitude of 250-300 kilometers above the Earth.

The head of ISA had announced on July 7, 2011, that Iran was set for the launch into space of a bio-capsule taking a living creature into orbit, and two more satellites before the end of the Iranian calendar year (ending on March 20, 2012).

Iran successfully launched its first indigenous bio-capsule into space by Kavoshgar 4 (Explorer 4) satellite carrier.

ISA's aerospace researchers carried out the launch, which aimed at testing the function of programming systems and subsystems on March 15, 2011.

The launch platform, engine, electronic and telemetry systems, the separation system between the rocket and its payload, telemetry ground stations and imaging data, ranging, and bio-capsule were tested in that mission.

Kavoshgar 4 and three other satellites were unveiled by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in February 2011.

PressTV - Iran to send living creature into space

 

[Azmal]

Intresting ~~

 

[Arian]

I hope they succeed this time.

 

[ApparentRaceTraitor]

Sam would be so proud

 

[T-Rex]

They should name the monkey obama!

 

[Arian]

They should name the monkey obama!

No, PETA would condemn us.

 

[Tin Man]

I guess this would make Iran " most powerful, most innovative, islamic nation". This, on top of all those sanctions.

 

[SOHEIL]

They should name the monkey obama!

thanks for Reminding

 

[Imran Khan]

s the object will come back on earth or you guys just leave poor animal in space for die?

 

[untitled]

I guess this would make Iran " most powerful, most innovative, ...

Like Iran is the only country that does animal testing ?

 

[scholseys]

That would be seen as racist.

 

[Arian]

s the object will come back on earth or you guys just leave poor animal in space for die?

hopefully the hero will come back. Actually the news is a bit incorrect. Iran has already successfully sent a bio-capsule carrying alive animals into the space. In 2009 Iran sent a bio-capsule carrying a rat, worms and turtles into space and it successfully came down as well. I hope they would bring the monkey down carefully and successfully.

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Like Iran is the only country that does animal testing ?

You probably have forgotten about Laika? or other animals that the Soviet Union and the United States sent to space?

That would be seen as racist.

Only if you say so.

 

[SOHEIL]

s the object will come back on earth or you guys just leave poor animal in space for die?

no it will come back on earth !

Do not worry

 

[untitled]

Monkeys in space

 

[SOHEIL]

Sam would be so proud

oh man .............