Tehran, Jan 24, IRNA – Doosti (Friendship) Satellite, the only fully domestic Iranian made satellite, will be launched in the coming few weeks, said official of the Sharif University of Technology of Tehran on Thursday.
Dousti satellite is manufactured at the Sharif University of Technology. ... The satellite takes images with better than 30 meter resolution, investigate of vegetation and monitors water resources. Dousti will be placed into the orbit 500 kilometers above the earth’s surface.
It's a small satellite that will fit into Safir SLV.
According to satellite imagery in this tweet below we might also see a safir launch next month along with simorgh. Both launch pads at the imam khomeini space center are showing signs of activity. https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1083126388121575426
https://twitter.com/alimat1979/status/1093175338585260033روز گذشته و در پرتاب #ماهوارهدوستی که با حضور جهرمی @azarijahromi، وزیر دفاع و حاجی زاده انجام شدهبود، این ماهواره نتوانست در مدار قرار گیرد.ماه قبل نیز ماهواه پیام با شکست مواجه شد؛ دومین ناکامی پس از تعلیق گسترده فعالیتهای فضائی ایران در دوره #روحانی یا شکستهایی عامدانه؟Yesterday and on the throw #Satellitewatch with Jahromi @azarijahromi,Defense Minister Hajizadeh, the satellite could not be placed in orbit.The last month message failed to fail; the second failure after the massive suspension of Iran's space activities in the #Rouhani period or deliberate failures?
Deputy Minister of Defense and Armed Forces Support added: "Thanks to Iranian scientists and the success of the divine, the satellite rocket launches on the ambassador last night, and launched a friendship satellite on the occasion of the decade of Fajr.
Well, this was indeed a failure.
Quote from: Satori on 02/06/2019 08:25 pmWell, this was indeed a failure.Is there some confirmation since your previous post?
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/692071812/satellite-imagery-suggests-second-iranian-space-launch-has-failed
Can someone fix the spelling in the thread title? It should be Dousti.
The first source that pointed the failed launch used Doosti. Why it 'should' be Dousti?