Successful Iranian-made satellite to orbit

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian-made satellite successfully launched their own country, Rasad I, into orbit, demiian Iran's Arabic-language television station, Al Alam, reported on Thursday.
"Iran has launched a domestic-made rockets and Rasad I had entered orbit," reported Al Alam on both man-made Iranian satellite launch it.

In February 2009, Iran launched its first homemade satellite, and telecommunications research satellite Omid (Hope) who described them as a major step coincides with the 30th anniversary of Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Iran puts its space program as a national pride, while the Satellite Rasad I (observations) will be used to send pictures and forecasts cuara.
Al-Alam reported, "The satellite was launched by rocket Safir. The satellite entered orbit 260 KM (163 miles) above Earth. It (the satellite) capable of photographing the Earth."
Rasad-I can play 15 times around the Earth every 24 hours, and have a lifespan of two months.
Western experts say Iran rarely reveals details about the level of technological advancement, while much of the technology Iran is a modification of the equipment supplied by China, North Korea and other countries.
United States and its allies fear Iran is trying to make atomic bombs and long-range ballistic technology concerned is used for launching satellites can also be used to launch the warheads.
Iran denied having any ambition to develop an atomic bomb and insists its nuclear program and the space is entirely peaceful.
Rasad I, which was originally scheduled to slide in August 2010, made by Malek Ashtar University in Tehran, which still has something to do with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
In February, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed the four new prototypes domestically built satellite that Iran expected to be launched before May 2012.
Iran reveals what they call the four new prototypes of artificial satellite of Iran, namely Rasad, Fajr, Zafar (Victory) and Amir Kabir as well-I and-B1 Safir rocket engines (Ambassador-BI).
Tehran says it wants to send Iranian citizens into space in 2020.
Fajr is the satellite observations made by the defense ministry, while Amir Kabir-I which details are not obtained, made by Tehran's Amir Kabir University.
Rocket called Safir-BI can carry satellites weighing 50 kilograms (110 pounds) to the elliptic orbit of 300-450 km (above the Earth ).(*)
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