Iranian Space Agency
The Iranian Space Agency (Persian سازمان فضایی ایران Sazman Fazāii Irān, English: Iranian Space Agency, ISA ) is the national space agency of Iran.
The President of the Iranian Space Agency, is an official of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The agency was founded for the purpose of research in the field of space and space technology. This includes earth observation and communications satellites. The agency complies with the requirements of the Iranian Space Council (English: Iran Space Council, ISC), which was established for the peaceful exploration of space and the development of space technology and for the scientific study of the Earth's upper atmosphere. The chairman of the Iranian Space Council, the Iranian president, Hassan Rohani date.
Satellites and rockets
Sinah -1, the first Iranian satellite was built by Russia and launched on October 28, 2005 with a Cosmos 3 missile, Iran made the 43 country that operates its own satellites. Meanwhile, Iran has started the built in their own country with its own satellite Omid Safir -2 rocket.
Iran developed similar North Korea's Taepodong -2 missile the Shahab family.
Rocket launches
On 4 February 2008 Iran successfully launched the suborbital rocket Kavoshgar -1 ( discoverer -1) of its new spaceport. The start shall be transported in a low orbit as an essential step to a first satellite.
On 2 February 2009, the successful launch of a Safir - 2 rocket has been reported, which brought the first self-made satellite Omid into orbit.
On 3 February 2010, Iran announced the launch of the rocket Kawoschgar -3. On board was an experimental capsule with a mouse, a turtle and several worms.
On 15 March 2011 a space capsule with a rocket of the type Kawoschgar -4 was launched from the launch base in Semnan. On the ballistic flight, the rocket reached an altitude of 120 km.
On 15 June 2011, a Safir brought the 15 -kg Earth observation satellite Rasad 1 into an orbit of 260 km altitude.
On 12 October 2011 the Deputy Minister of Science Mohammad Mehdinejad - Nouri announced that a flight of the rocket was Kawoschgar -5 failed with a monkey on board. The capsule was supposed to reach a height of 120 km at a suborbital flight of 20 minutes duration. The timing of the launch was not known precisely, only the month Schahriwar, which lasts from August 23 to September 22.
The third launch a satellite took place on February 3, 2012. A Safir rocket brought the 50kg satellite Navid -e - Elm o Sanat into orbit.
On January 28, 2013 Iranian news agencies reported the successful launch of a rocket Kawoschgar, with the space capsule " Pischgam " ( pioneer ) should be provided. With this launch, a monkey should have been brought to an altitude of 120 kilometers and the capsule have returned to the living animal on board. An exact time of the flight was also not mentioned here. Several scientists ( including, for example, Yariv Bash, founder and leader of the Non-Profit Organization Space Israel) cast doubt on the authenticity of the message that the monkey had returned alive. In particular, after the Iranian news agency was forced to concede that the published photos of the monkeys actually showed two different animals.
Space centers
The main launch site of the Iranian Space Agency is Emamshahr from where the suborbital missile Shahab 3 were started. Qom is the second on the grid. Another starting point is in the province of Semnan in construction.
Future Projects
The director of the Iranian Space Agency stated in 2005 that the government would invest to achieve their goals in the space sector in the next five years, a total of $ 500 million.
In May 2010, the Iranian Telecommunications Minister Reza Taqipour announced that Iran is currently working on five to six satellites, the first of which could start in the first half of 2011, meant was Rasad 1 with its launch on 15 June 2011., The construction of additional starting places is planned. At a conference on space technology official Tehran University announced on 8 October 2011 that would start in the next three to four months, the satellite Navid, which was fully developed in Iran. Another satellite is under construction Zafar, who deliver higher resolution in contrast to Navid color images. Zafar could be started in about six months.
A manned space mission scheduled for 2024, and expected to take place in 2018 or 2019 after a Cabinet decision. In December 2013 Mohammad Ebrahimi, director of the Iranian Space Research Centre said that a suborbital manned space flight possible sei.Vorlage even in three to four years: Future / in 3 years