Iran despatched into house on Friday (Dec 6) its heaviest-ever payload utilizing the Simorgh service rocket together with a complicated module for transferring satellites to higher-altitude orbits, state tv reported.
The Saman-1 switch module, together with a CubeSat and a analysis payload “had been efficiently positioned in an elliptical orbit with a excessive level of 410km and a low level of 300km,” stated the printed.
The launch comes as the USA and European international locations declare Iran is transferring ballistic missiles to Russia that will be doubtless utilized in its warfare with Ukraine inside weeks. Iran has denied this.
The Simorgh, a two-stage liquid-fuelled satellite tv for pc launch automobile, is constructed by Iran’s defence ministry and Armed Forces Logistics, stated Iranian media.
“Throughout its eighth launch, it achieved a brand new milestone by efficiently delivering the Saman-1 Orbital Switch Block and two different analysis payloads with a mixed weight of roughly 300kg, setting a brand new nationwide file for the heaviest payload launched into orbit,” they added.
In January, Iran stated it had concurrently launched three satellites for the primary time utilizing the Simorgh rocket.
One satellite tv for pc weighing 32kg and two nano-satellites of lower than 10kg every had been despatched to a minimal orbit of 450km, with the 2 smaller gadgets geared toward testing narrowband communication and geopositioning know-how, Iranian media stated on the time.
In September, Iran put right into a 550km orbit the Chamran-1 analysis satellite tv for pc with the Qaem-100 satellite tv for pc service.
