TAG | Iran launches second satellite-carrier Safir rocket into space |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Tuesday, 19 August 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Omid is a future Iranian research satellite, the first operational satellite to be launched by the Iranian satellite-carrier rocket Safir. It will be placed in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The Omid will be Iran's first domestically built satellite—an important step in the Iranian space program. The rocket and satellite together are called Safir-e Omid ("messenger of hope The Iranian satellite Omid will apparently monitor natural disasters, especially earthquakes, in Iran, along with improving and extending its telecommunications and date processing technologies. Author’s note: The several news articles published on this launch are sketchy at best. Some are reporting no payload was launched, while others are reporting a “dummy” payload was launched. One article reported that Omid may have been launched, but that the launch of the satellite was being denied by the Iranians. I assume Iran is providing only a few details of this event, which is likely the reason for lack of concrete facts on this launch—and definitely the reason why I used words such as “apparently” and “supposedly” to describe portions of this article.
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