Quote from: kevin-rf on 12/05/2011 02:24 pmWasn't that a plant for making solid fuel for missiles, to date all Iranian launches have been from liquid fueled vehicles. Iran has been developing, and has already flown, a solid fuel ballistic missile named Sejjil - a significant development. This is the beginning of the real path to ICBM capability for Iran - a big worry for the U.S. since it would bring Kansas City, etc., into Iran's sights, literally, with push button immediacy. (The big liquid fuel rockets used for space launch are public relations diversions from the real missile work underway, IMO.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SejjilThis accident might be a setback, but I would expect Iran to have redundancy in such facilities. - Ed Kyle
Wasn't that a plant for making solid fuel for missiles, to date all Iranian launches have been from liquid fueled vehicles.
The intel and security sites are pretty uniform in reporting that the solid rocket factory explosion was sabotage, and probably related to the nuke scientist assassinations that have been happening. Guesses run from internal dissidents to Moussad, or a mix.
I doubt it was sabotage , senior US defense officials have indicated that the explosion was an industrial accident....>
TEHRAN, Feb. 5 (MNA) – Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi Announced on Sunday that Iran plans to launch new generation of domestically manufactured satellites in the near future.Vahidi also said that the Fajr (Dawn) satellite is the first new-generation satellite that will be put into orbit. .
Head of ISA: Fajr can be launched during this monthIn Farsi:http://tinyurl.com/85kvm6g
Quote from: InvalidAttitude on 02/08/2012 06:42 pmHead of ISA: Fajr can be launched during this monthIn Farsi:http://tinyurl.com/85kvm6gGoogle Translate gives me a rather 'poetic' translation of the article, but I think it says that they want to launch Fajr on 22 Bahman (11 February) and that the launch vehicle will be a Safir 1-B. Is that the Safir with a Cold Gas Kick Motor?