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Iran, Russia Sign Agreement on Building Satellites
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Russia inked an agreement to boost space cooperation, specially in building satellites.
The agreement signed during a recent meeting between Iranian Space Agency officials and Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev focuses on building Iransat satellite.
At the meeting, the Iranian officials requested Russia to boost space cooperation with Tehran and cooperate with Iran in building new generations of satellites and sending astronauts into space.
The two sides also agreed to set up a joint working group to discuss the details of the protocol in biennial meetings.
The Russian official said that Moscow is ready to cooperate with Iran in the area of communications, promising his country will help Iran to manufacture small satellites.
Iran has recently taken wide strides in aerospace. The country sent the first biocapsule of living creatures into space in February, using its home-made Kavoshgar-3 (Explorer-3) carrier.
Iran announced in February that it plans to unveil and send two recently-built satellites into space in the near future.
"Two satellites called Fajr (Dawn) and Rasad (Observation) will be unveiled during the Ten Day Dawn (from February 1-11, marking the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979) and they will be launched in future," Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi told reporters.
Vahidi referred to the defense ministry's research plans and programs, and said, "We have plans for designing (and producing) numerous satellites."
He also underlined that the defense ministry is seeking to find different applications for the products that it manufactures in such projects to commercialize them.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had also earlier announced that the country plans to send a home-made measurement satellite into orbit in the near future.
"Iran's measurement satellite will be launched into space from an Iranian launch-pad and will have an Iranian exchange station and control station," Iranian president said late 2010.
Ahmadinejad further noted Iran's plans for sending astronauts into space in 2024, and said that the issue had gone under a second study at a cabinet meeting and that the cabinet had decided to implement the plan in 2019, five years earlier than the date envisaged in the original plan.
Omid (hope) was Iran's first research satellite that was designed for gathering information and testing equipment. After orbiting for three months, Omid successfully completed its mission without any problem. It completed more than 700 orbits over seven weeks and reentered the Earth's atmosphere on April 25, 2009.
After launching Omid, Tehran unveiled three new satellites called Tolou, Mesbah II and Navid, respectively. Iran has also unveiled its latest achievements in designing and producing satellite carriers very recently.
A new generation of home-made satellites and a new satellite carrier called Simorgh (Phoenix) were among the latest achievements unveiled by Iran's aerospace industries.
The milk-bottle shaped rocket is equipped to carry a 60-kilogram (132-pound) satellite 500 kilometers (310 miles) into orbit.
The 27-meter (90 foot) tall multi-stage rocket weighs 85 tons and its liquid fuel propulsion system has a thrust of up to 143 tons.
Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), which was set up in 1959.
The agreement signed during a recent meeting between Iranian Space Agency officials and Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev focuses on building Iransat satellite.
At the meeting, the Iranian officials requested Russia to boost space cooperation with Tehran and cooperate with Iran in building new generations of satellites and sending astronauts into space.
The two sides also agreed to set up a joint working group to discuss the details of the protocol in biennial meetings.
The Russian official said that Moscow is ready to cooperate with Iran in the area of communications, promising his country will help Iran to manufacture small satellites.
Iran has recently taken wide strides in aerospace. The country sent the first biocapsule of living creatures into space in February, using its home-made Kavoshgar-3 (Explorer-3) carrier.
Iran announced in February that it plans to unveil and send two recently-built satellites into space in the near future.
"Two satellites called Fajr (Dawn) and Rasad (Observation) will be unveiled during the Ten Day Dawn (from February 1-11, marking the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979) and they will be launched in future," Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi told reporters.
Vahidi referred to the defense ministry's research plans and programs, and said, "We have plans for designing (and producing) numerous satellites."
He also underlined that the defense ministry is seeking to find different applications for the products that it manufactures in such projects to commercialize them.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had also earlier announced that the country plans to send a home-made measurement satellite into orbit in the near future.
"Iran's measurement satellite will be launched into space from an Iranian launch-pad and will have an Iranian exchange station and control station," Iranian president said late 2010.
Ahmadinejad further noted Iran's plans for sending astronauts into space in 2024, and said that the issue had gone under a second study at a cabinet meeting and that the cabinet had decided to implement the plan in 2019, five years earlier than the date envisaged in the original plan.
Omid (hope) was Iran's first research satellite that was designed for gathering information and testing equipment. After orbiting for three months, Omid successfully completed its mission without any problem. It completed more than 700 orbits over seven weeks and reentered the Earth's atmosphere on April 25, 2009.
After launching Omid, Tehran unveiled three new satellites called Tolou, Mesbah II and Navid, respectively. Iran has also unveiled its latest achievements in designing and producing satellite carriers very recently.
A new generation of home-made satellites and a new satellite carrier called Simorgh (Phoenix) were among the latest achievements unveiled by Iran's aerospace industries.
The milk-bottle shaped rocket is equipped to carry a 60-kilogram (132-pound) satellite 500 kilometers (310 miles) into orbit.
The 27-meter (90 foot) tall multi-stage rocket weighs 85 tons and its liquid fuel propulsion system has a thrust of up to 143 tons.
Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), which was set up in 1959.
