[FPSPACE] Iranian satellite launch attempt

[John Locker]

I dont think there is any confusion Jim

This was a test launch of the carrier.....it seems to have been the western 
press that misinterpreted the IRINN news release assuming it "was" a 
satellite launch.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Oberg" <jeoberg at comcast.net>
To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Iranian satellite launch attempt


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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