Iranian Space program

[Draco.IMF]

Iran Space Agency Chief releases video footage of Satellite Zafar’s production. Zafar is expected to be launched in coming days.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1223478309461397508

 

[TheImmortal]

Iran usually does Space Launches in Feb to line up with government and military anniversary/parades.

 

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[PeeD]

Ok now things make sense.

Simorgh is the first stage testbed --> Sarir gets the proper and final second stage --> Soroush is the heavy lift variant with 4 x 0,8m x 10m strap-on boosters.

 

[yavar]

 

[SOHEIL]

@SOHEIL

Any news on possible safir launch after simorgh?

I don't know

 

[VEVAK]

@SOHEIL

Any news on possible safir launch after simorgh?

for now they say that the Safir is retired! If the 1st simorgh fails there will be another simurgh launch and there are 2 Zafar Sat's (Zafar 1 & Zafar 2) ready.

 

[GWXP]

Since Iran originally planned to send astranaut by 2021 and later planned a 1 ton payload SLV in its 2016-2020 five year plan....we can assume that Sarir will be ready by 2021 (year 1400)

Probably, Sarir will fly for 4-5 years and then in 2026 Soroush will be ready...

I don,t think it will be difficult to build Soroush, since it appears to be the same Sarir but with prolonged first and second stage plus 4 boosters in the first stage.

I just wonder what is the payload of Sarir and Soroush

 

[Philosopher]

From what I gathered from the interview of that Space program official, he said the launches of simorgh so far only experimental satellites on them given simorgh itself is still in experimental phase so that way if the launches were successful, they would at least have an experimental satellite in orbit. So the question now is, why are they putting something like Zafar that take years to make on it? Are they confident Simorgh is ready now or is Zafar another experimental satellite?

 

[TheImmortal]

From what I gathered from the interview of that Space program official, he said the launches of simorgh so far only experimental satellites on them given simorgh itself is still in experimental phase so that way if the launches were successful, they would at least have an experimental satellite in orbit. So the question now is, why are they putting something like Zafar that take years to make on it? Are they confident Simorgh is ready now or is Zafar another experimental satellite?

Of course Zafar is experimental satellite it weights only 110kg and doesn’t even have unfolding solar panels.

 

[Sina-1]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1224241262188027904

https://twitter.com/x/status/1224335207223963648

geo = game over!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1224299032044097536

Major:


Islamic Republic is establishing a data center were information harvested by satellites would be offered to startups and tech firms: Iran Space Agency chief @barari_ir.
The agency is implementing an open API approach

 

[Philosopher]

Any time line regarding when we can expect to see the next gen SLVs? From my understanding Iran currently has a slot available in GEO but it can expire if Iran does not put a satellite there.