Ground stations located on the map of Iran , I assume that some of them are stationary and some of them are mobile .
Is this the satellite that is supposed to have an in-orbit manoeuvre capability?
Quote from: Phillip Clark on 02/04/2012 01:21 amIs this the satellite that is supposed to have an in-orbit manoeuvre capability?No it does not have a propulsion system , the Fajr satellite however does :http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/6887772290/future-iranian-satellite-launches
We can finally track it on n2yo:http://www.n2yo.com/?s=38075
According to the Israelis, apparently the camera lens on the satellite is a stock 8-24 mm lens from a Sony digital camera....Spysat? If this thing's a spysat, then the Iranians should sell them across the globe for universities around the world to spy on the sport teams of the other universities....
Sadly, Israel hypocritically calls anything launched either by or for an Arab country a "spysat", whether or not it has an imaging system on board.Israel is scared of the Arab countries gaining the technology which it has used for more than 15 years. My worry is that Israel might have some form of basic ASAT capability and they might use it against an Arab satellite.
Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 02/04/2012 02:31 pmAccording to the Israelis, apparently the camera lens on the satellite is a stock 8-24 mm lens from a Sony digital camera....Spysat? If this thing's a spysat, then the Iranians should sell them across the globe for universities around the world to spy on the sport teams of the other universities.... Iran is very far from developing a spysat , the Navid is a experimental observation satellite made by Iranian university students.Quote from: Phillip Clark on 02/04/2012 02:45 pmSadly, Israel hypocritically calls anything launched either by or for an Arab country a "spysat", whether or not it has an imaging system on board.Israel is scared of the Arab countries gaining the technology which it has used for more than 15 years. My worry is that Israel might have some form of basic ASAT capability and they might use it against an Arab satellite.Iran isn't an Arab country , the majority of Iranians are ethnic Persians and Persian is the official language of Iran .
Quote from: Nahavandi on 02/04/2012 03:29 pmQuote from: Galactic Penguin SST on 02/04/2012 02:31 pmAccording to the Israelis, apparently the camera lens on the satellite is a stock 8-24 mm lens from a Sony digital camera....Spysat? If this thing's a spysat, then the Iranians should sell them across the globe for universities around the world to spy on the sport teams of the other universities.... Iran is very far from developing a spysat , the Navid is a experimental observation satellite made by Iranian university students.Quote from: Phillip Clark on 02/04/2012 02:45 pmSadly, Israel hypocritically calls anything launched either by or for an Arab country a "spysat", whether or not it has an imaging system on board.Israel is scared of the Arab countries gaining the technology which it has used for more than 15 years. My worry is that Israel might have some form of basic ASAT capability and they might use it against an Arab satellite.Iran isn't an Arab country , the majority of Iranians are ethnic Persians and Persian is the official language of Iran .Yup. It's just that it irks me that many Western media sources are trying to add too much features to the little satellite....
The head of Iran’s space agency acknowledged Sunday that the cameras aboard Iran’s past and planned satellites are too poor to give useful images, but said the country is now working on a satellite to be completed in four years that will produce useful images.The government has boasted of the images sent to earth by the Rasad (Observer) microsatellite that was orbited June 15. But while the regime has spoken of the pictures, it has not released any of them to the public.On Sunday, Hamid Fazeli did not boast of the photos from outer space. In fact, he said even the Amir Kabir, Navid and Zafar that Iran is planning to orbit in the next few years have cameras that take pictures of very low resolution and limited utility.But he said the space agency is now working on a new satellite called Pars-2 with a camera that will have a resolution of five meters, meaning it can pick out objects that are five meters or 16 feet across.Iran has not described the resolution of the camera on board the Rasad, which is still orbiting the earth. But it has given the resolution of another camera being prepared for orbiting. And that camera will provide photos only 1/800th as good as satellite photos that are available commercially.A few months ago, Hossain Bolandi showed off the Navid satellite he is working on. It weighs 50 kilos, triple the size of the just-launched Rasad. Bolandi said the camera on the Navid would be able to see objects more than 400 meters across or the size of four football fields.But commercial satellites like the GeoEye1 that are currently in service show objects only 50 centimeters (20 inches) across and US spy satellites are understood to discern objects as small as 1 centimeter (a half inch) in size.Fazeli’s statement that the Pars-2 in four years will see objects five meters across will still mean that commercial imagery will be 10 times better than what the Islamic Republic is aiming for.
The UniSat-4 microsatellite hosts two CCD-based programmable cameras. The CCD sensor contains 640 x 480 pixels. The JPEG compression algorithm is used with the compression factor selectable by ground command. The two cameras have different optics and resolution. In this way, UniSat-4 is able to take pictures of the Earth's surface in the northern hemisphere.One camera is provided with optics of 2.5 mm focal length, providing a FOV (Field of View) of 84.6º and a resolution of about 0.8 km/pixel. The second camera is equipped with optics of 6 mm focal length (36.8º FOV) providing a 0.3 km/pixel resolution. The FOVs of the two cameras are overlapping to take imagery of the same target area with different resolutions.