[FPSPACE] Iraninan satellite launching...first picture of satellite released

[Peter Pesavento]

>From the FARS News Agency, confirms a satellite launching, launched on the
anniversary of the birthday of the Shites 12th Imam

 

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8705270595

 

Visit the URL link to see the satellite imagery

 


News number: 8705270595

18:21 | 2008-08-17

Urgent: 

Iran Sends First Satellite into Orbit 

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran successfully orbited its first home-made satellite Sunday
morning. 

The satellite named Omid (Hope) has been designed and built by Iranian
specialists and was orbited by an Iranian carrier rocket. 

In February Tehran successfully launched the Explorer-1 research rocket,
which is capable of carrying a satellite into orbit, and unveiled the
country's first domestically built satellite, Omid. 

The achievement has drawn much attention from around the world, specially
from among Muslim nations, as Iran is under heavy sanctions by the West and
the UN Security Council making it develop the technology and build every
part and equipment needed in the field of aerospace. 

The satellite was sent into orbit today on the occasion of the birthday
anniversary of Shiites' 12th Imam (May God Hasten His Reappearance). 

Joint Chief of Staff on Sunday congratulated Supreme Leader of Islamic
Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and brave Iranian nation on
successful launching of the rocket carrying the country's first satellite. 

In a message issued on Sunday, the Joint Chief of Staff said the rocket
carrying the country's first satellite, was successfully fired on the birth
Anniversary of the last Imam of Shiites, Hazrat Mahdi (May God Hasten His
Reappearance), thus illustrating the auspicious name of the Imam in the
space. 

The message said the launching marks the second instance of successful
tentative firing of such rockets.

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