[FPSPACE] Iran says its space probe sending data to Earth

[Allen Thomson]

--- LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> wrote:

> Iran says its space probe sending data to Earth
> 
> Tehran (AFP) Feb 17, 2008 - Iran on Sunday said a probe
> it sent into space  on the back of rocket whose launch
> caused international concern was sending data back to earth
> from an altitude of up to 250 kilometres (155  miles).

Somebody who knows about Farsi verb tenses should check the original of
that. It is very improbable that the rocket shown on Iranian TV put
anything into an orbit with a exoatmospheric perigee. Endolithospheric
yes; exoatmospheric no.