Iran's Space Program

[longbrained]

Here is the picture of school students assembling a cubesat kit and program it. Even you can order it, buy it and have it shipped to you that is if you are not in Iran since sanctions prohibit Iran from buying it. It is a complete satellite and if paid for can be launched by a launch capable nation. Here you can read about it more: CubeSat

The only thing that matters is if you are a launch capable nation. Otherwise even school kids can make those pictures even perhaps better than them.

 

[longbrained]

Fifth graders making satellite and program it for launch in their school:

 

[SOHEIL]

yes but this toys should pass static tests

and that is another Subject

by the way all of the countries can made a satelite but sending it into space ...

 

[Mosamania]

Longbrained just stop. Stop making a fool of yourself. Just face the reality, KSA is a scientific capable nation bringing pictures of 5th graders to prove your point?? The satellite is built top to bottom with Saudi hands using Saudi technology. It has a 200 kg payload. Face the reality, this is not KSA of the 1960s anymore.

I know you hate KSA and even the mere mention of it's name with every inch of your soul but even this is internationally recognized as a Saudi development no matter how many pictures you post of 5th graders this does not change this fact.

 

[longbrained]

yes but this toys should pass static tests

and that is another Subject

by the way all of the countries can made a satelite but sending it into space ...

That is what I am trying to say. Even school children can make satellites. The flight tests are usually performed by the nation that is launching them to know whether the satellite is going to be safe while in flight. It is not really special if you are a making a satellite specially when you have lots of money and can pay to import all the kits and specialists to come to your country and have the satellite assembled there. The real thing is if you are capable to launch it and only nine countries can launch a satellite in the world, Iran being one of them: Timeline of first orbital launches by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[SOHEIL]

i think we should speak about the capabilities we have right now...
if we do this in future ... so we can proud of it

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RED : Confirmed orbital launch
BLUE : Unconfirmed (claimed) orbital launch
GREEN : Future (planned) orbital launch

 

[Alpery]

what does it mean of colors?

 

[SOHEIL]

RED : Confirmed orbital launch
BLUE : Unconfirmed (claimed) orbital launch
GREEN : Future (planned) orbital launch

 

[Alpery]

what did Iraq, when?

 

[Mosamania]

Saudi Arabia, Ukraine To Hold Joint Space Explorations

"Saudi Arabia "has obtained substantial success in space exploration over the last years," and Ukraine appreciates prospects of scientific cooperation with Saudi Arabian scientists, Alekseyev said."

These are the words of the head of the Ukrainian space agency himself. I am 100% certain launching capabilitis are to come soon.
And seeing kazakhestan green on that map affirmed my belief:
Kazakhstan and Saudi Arabia agreed on coop in space spheres

 

[longbrained]

what did Iraq, when?

Iraq according to Saddam regime television in 1989 had put a third stage on top of a Scud-C and the dummy warhead on top of it completed 6 orbits around the world. This was their claim but was never confirmed by any other country and international space observers using radars and optical sensors and since the payload was dummy it was never able to emit any radio signals. So it is a claimed launch but not confirmed.

 

[Alpery]

Iraq according to Saddam regime television in 1989 had put a third stage on top of a Scud-C and the dummy warhead on top of it completed 6 orbits around the world. This was their claim but was never confirmed by any other country and international space observers using radars and optical sensors and since the payload was dummy it was never able to emit any radio signals. So it is a claimed launch but not confirmed.

which house's roof damaged?
2kg -2000kg, low orbit-Geostationary orbit ..those are very different capabilities

 

[longbrained]

2kg -2000kg, low orbit-Geostationary orbit ..those are very different capabilities

Not really, since as you go away from earth the gravitational field weakens by a power of 2. As soon as you cross 1000 km altitude, it becomes really easy to go to geostationary and since the rocket technology is the same, all you need to do is either boost your current launchers or make bigger launchers. The most difficult part is to be able to have sophisticated control systems that can steer the payload and inject it into a stable orbit. Even a slight error in this stage will cause your payload to head back to earth. There is a very calculated velocity for every orbit and inclination. Exceeding or slowing the velocity and wrong inclination will mean an unstable orbit which will make the payload come back to earth. This is one of the most technical challenges in the world since it pertains to very delicate control systems. The rest is your rockets thrust and that depends on how heavy your payload is and how high you want to place it. In case of going to moon, you will have to escape the earth's gravity all together and that needs even more power thrust from very large rockets.

 

[Alpery]

bigger rocket engines need most advanced materials..not so easy.. I think...then its up to your economy

 

[longbrained]

which house's roof damaged?

To tell you the truth, I am really having a hard time believing that they actually launched anything. Scud missiles are not really capable of putting anything in orbit and neither they had enough control stability to reach an orbit. It was probably propaganda that Saddam needed at that time, otherwise anything with a size larger than 5 cm launched into space is detected by space observers around the world. Anyways, it is like North Korea, who also have claimed a launch but no one confirmed it but it is said that crowd of people each evening used to gather in Pyongyang big square and look up in the sky and claim that they are seeing their own satellite. But you gotta give it to North Koreans, atleast their tries to go to space were actually confirmed but their space launchers failed to reach orbit and fell in Pacific oceans. With Iraqis no one even claimed that their roof got damaged. So it is hard to say.

The amazing thing is that even South Koreans have tried but have failed to put a satellite into space. But they had the humility to announce that they have failed. At least they told the truth.

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bigger rocket engines need most advanced materials..not so easy.. I think...then its up to your economy

Yeah, that is true. If you already have intelligent human resources, then it all depends on money. Otherwise Pakistan would already be launching a couple of satellites each year, but alas the money is the issue.