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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #900 on: 03/30/2015 12:12 pm »

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #901 on: 03/31/2015 12:06 am »
Curiously, the mobile gantry seems to straddle only two rails(?) of the four on the concrete pad.  Perhaps a much larger facility is planned for future launch vehicles?

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #902 on: 03/31/2015 12:17 am »
Curiously, the mobile gantry seems to straddle only two rails(?) of the four on the concrete pad.  Perhaps a much larger facility is planned for future launch vehicles?
The MST is on inner rails and the outer rails are indicative of either tracks for a mobile launch table in the future that will connect to a VAF type complex or the rails are left over from movable gantry crane used to first build the LUT and then MST. Time will tell as they have only built the first of two pads at this SLC. They might go with an Apollo SLC-37 approach with shared hardware.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #903 on: 03/31/2015 05:40 am »
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #904 on: 03/31/2015 02:47 pm »
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do you mind informing us what exactly we are looking at Soheil. I'm guessing this is in relation to my previous post but can't tell because its way zoomed in.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #905 on: 03/31/2015 06:26 pm »
It appears to be a launch pad: the exhaust duct goes upward to the left and the service tower is seen from the top at an extreme angle that also obscures the mount for the rocket itself.  I don't why the rest of the pad is so large and empty.  Perhaps it is still under construction and more support facilities and access roads are yet to be added.  Or perhaps it is an engine test stand.

Anything else I could say would be totally speculative.  The original poster will have to provide more details.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #906 on: 03/31/2015 07:38 pm »
It appears to be a launch pad: the exhaust duct goes upward to the left and the service tower is seen from the top at an extreme angle that also obscures the mount for the rocket itself.  I don't why the rest of the pad is so large and empty.  Perhaps it is still under construction and more support facilities and access roads are yet to be added.  Or perhaps it is an engine test stand.

Anything else I could say would be totally speculative.  The original poster will have to provide more details.

It is the Sharoud site - and well known since 2013. it appears that the site saw little develipments since then.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #907 on: 04/01/2015 04:29 am »
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #908 on: 04/02/2015 11:13 am »
Integration building at Shahrud:


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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #909 on: 04/11/2015 03:28 pm »
Two new satellites?

check this news flash:

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940122001253

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Deputy Head of the Iranian Science Ministry's Aerospace Research Center for Executive Affairs Mohammad Ali Farsi announced that the country has built two new space explorers named 'Tir' (Mercury) and 'Mehr' (Sun).
"The two explorers have been built at the space organization (of the Defense Ministry)," Farsi told reporters in Tehran on Saturday.

Noting that the project to build explorers started in Iran since nearly 10 years ago, he explained that Tir and Mehr explorers were also built under the same projects.

Farsi said that the two explorers are now ready to launch into the space, adding that they could be sent into the space in two months at the demand of any research, academic or state center that intends to send satellites into orbit.

Iran has taken long strides in recent years to develop its space industry and to build different types of satellites and explorers.

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Please note that the term "explorers" could mean "research rocket" of "launcher". See for example the use of the term in the "Kavoshgar" series of sounding rockets.

ALso of interest is the affiliation to Iran's ministry of defense.
« Last Edit: 06/25/2015 07:02 am by Comet »

Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #910 on: 04/13/2015 12:22 pm »
Minister: Iran Resolved to Orbit Home-Made Satellites


http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940124001055

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Communications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi called on the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) and other relevant bodies and universities to double efforts to build and orbit at least one national satellite for communication purposes.

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"We need at least one national satellite and we should understand our existing weaknesses to materialize this goal," Vaezi said, addressing a ceremony to introduce new Head of the ISA Mohsen Bahrami in Tehran on Monday.

Noting that four new satellites built by Iranian experts are on the country's launch list at present, he said, "ISA will choose one of these four satellites to send it into the space."

Vaezi also informed that in addition to Sharif Sat and Tadbir (Wisdom) satellites, other satellites have also been built by the Iranian Space Research Center and Amir Kabir University of Technology, and all the four will be launched in the near future.



So goodbye Fazeli and Torkan Hello Mohsen Bahrami
And a realistic statement to "we should understand our existing weaknesses to materialize this goal"

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #911 on: 04/13/2015 12:39 pm »
I thought the ISA was no more.  Has it been re-formed?

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #912 on: 04/13/2015 01:36 pm »
I thought the ISA was no more.  Has it been re-formed?

It was never disolved. That was apparently just an false assertion on a certain media platform, where everyone can post their own "news" without providing any sources.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #913 on: 04/21/2015 05:24 am »
ISA is now moved to the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Tech. The organization will be responsible for performing the projects and implementing the policies.

The other space related organization, Iranian Space Research Center will supposedly work under the same ministry (or possibly ministry of Research and higher education).

A higher level organization will oversee and supervise ISA projects and set the high level policies. National space center (INSC or NSCI) is placed under the office of president. The head of this new organization has been specified but it is still being established.


« Last Edit: 04/21/2015 05:25 am by wmac »

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #914 on: 06/02/2015 01:08 am »
Tuesday morning, east coast time, there will be a discussion of Iran's missile programs at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. They will be live streaming the discussion:

http://www.hudson.org/events/1250-iran-s-missile-program62015

 


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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #915 on: 06/02/2015 04:26 am »
Thanks Blackstar. If anyone is attending, please ask any of the spooks there if they can confirm the dates of the following failed Safir launch attempts:

    Date    Launch Vehicle  Payload
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*23 May 12? Safir-1B F2     Fajr F1 (Dawn)
*22 Sep 12? Safir-1B F3     Amir Kabir-I F1 (A Test, AUTSAT, RU300)
*17 Feb 13? Safir-1B F4     SharifSat 1 F1 (Noble)
*20 Mar 14? Safir-1B F5     ?
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* Launch Failure
« Last Edit: 06/02/2015 04:29 am by Steven Pietrobon »
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #916 on: 06/02/2015 05:11 pm »
Thanks Blackstar. If anyone is attending, please ask any of the spooks there if they can confirm the dates of the following failed Safir launch attempts:

    Date    Launch Vehicle  Payload
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*23 May 12? Safir-1B F2     Fajr F1 (Dawn)
*22 Sep 12? Safir-1B F3     Amir Kabir-I F1 (A Test, AUTSAT, RU300)
*17 Feb 13? Safir-1B F4     SharifSat 1 F1 (Noble)
*20 Mar 14? Safir-1B F5     ?
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* Launch Failure


Nothing that specific. They were talking about larger policy issues. Some interesting stuff, including the statement that the Iranians have slowed down the testing of their ICBM program but had put more emphasis on their space launch program (although I think they said that even that had slowed recently). Also discussion of how important missiles are in Iranian strategy.

I'm sure that they will archive the video. Everybody seems to do that these days.

Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #917 on: 06/03/2015 08:57 am »
http://www.hudson.org/events/1250-iran-s-missile-program62015

There is now a video and audio available from the discussion

 

Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #918 on: 08/14/2015 09:33 am »
All About - Iranian Space Agency




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Re: Iranian Space
« Reply #919 on: 08/14/2015 09:38 am »
This is just a machine-read version of the Wikipedia entry on the Iranian Space Agency  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Space_Agency)

 

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