[FPSPACE] Iranian satellite launch attempt

[Jim Oberg]

So do we now have reason to become suspicious that the 'test firing of booster' story 
only comes out AFTER the launch, by several hours? Do we start giving more credit to the
intuitions of several posters here, that a genuine satellite launching WAS the
intention -- but it failed? 

What are our best estimates of the actual launch time?

And how many hours elapsed afterwards, before the first mention
of the flight only being a launch vehicle TEST, appeared?


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Peter Pesavento 
  To: fpspace at friends-partners.org 
  Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 4:03 PM
  Subject: [FPSPACE] Iraninan satellite launching...first picture of satellitereleased


  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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