{"id":36303,"date":"2011-06-19T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/iran-satellite-launch-%e2%80%93-monkeys-too\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:46:50","slug":"iran-satellite-launch-%e2%80%93-monkeys-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/iran-satellite-launch-%e2%80%93-monkeys-too.php","title":{"rendered":"Iran Satellite Launch \u2013 Monkeys too"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iran's Saffir rocket with a small satellite sits on the pad at an undisclosed location. Image: Iranian Defence Ministry (sic) via France 24<\/p><\/div>

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Iran announced they launched a satellite into orbit on Wednesday.  The Safir rocket was said to put a 15.3 kg (33 lb) satellite into a 260 km (161 mile) orbit.  The satellite is termed a remote sensing satellite although its actual function is undefined.<\/p>

Iran also announced they will launch a monkey into orbit.  The monkey remains un-named. \":mrgreen:\" <\/p>

Here’s the story from France 24<\/a>:<\/p>

AFP<\/strong> – Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country’s top space official said after the launch of the Rassad-1 satellite, state television reported on its website on Thursday.<\/p>

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“The Kavoshgar-5 rocket will be launched during the month of Mordad (July 23 to August 23) with a 285-kilogramme capsule carrying a monkey to an altitude of 120 kilometres (74 miles),” said Hamid Fazeli, head of Iran’s Space Organisation.<\/p>

In February, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled a space capsule designed to carry a live monkey into space, along with four new prototypes of home-built satellites the country hopes to launch before March 2012.<\/p>

At the time, Fazeli touted the launch of a large animal into space as the first step towards sending a man into space, which Tehran says is scheduled for 2020.<\/p>

Iran sent small animals into space — a rat, turtles and worms — aboard its Kavoshgar-3 rocket in 2010.<\/p>

Fazeli also announced plans for the launch in October of the Fajr reconnaissance satellite with “a life span of a year and a half, and to be placed at an altitude of 400 kilometres,” the website reported.<\/p>

On Wednesday, the Islamic republic successfully put its Rassad-1 (Observation-1) satellite into orbit 260 kilometres above the Earth.<\/p>

Rassad-1, which orbits the Earth 15 times every 24 hours and has a two-month life cycle, will be used to photograph the planet and transmit images, media reports said.<\/p>

Originally scheduled to launch in August 2010, the satellite was built by Malek Ashtar University in Tehran, which is linked to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.<\/p>

Iran, which first put a satellite into orbit in 2009, has outlined an ambitious space programme amid Western concerns.<\/p>

Western powers fear that Iran’s space agenda might be linked to developing a ballistic missile capability that could deliver nuclear warheads.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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