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?
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.
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.
"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.
I thought the ISA was no more. Has it been re-formed?
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------*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 ?-------------------------------------------------------------------------------* Launch Failure