TEHRAN (ANA)- A set of four reaction wheels for the home-made Zafar 2 sensing satellite was successfully delivered to the Iran University of Science and Technology by the Space Propulsion Research Institute after designing, manufacturing, and successfully performing all standard space tests.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Head of the Iranian Space Agency Hassan Salariyeh announced plans to launch the home-made Zafar-2 and Paya satellites into the orbit in the coming months using a foreign launcher.
TEHRAN (ANA)- The Iranian technologists at the knowledge-based companies put the design and construction of an upgraded version of Kowsar satellite with agricultural applications on their agenda.
TEHRAN (ANA)- China successfully launched a new group of low Earth orbit satellites from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Iran launched a new home-made research and telecommunication satellite, named Nahid-2, into space and it communicated back the first batch of data.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Seyed Sattar Hashemi announced that the country will launch 3 equipped space bases by the end of the current Persian calendar year (started March 21).
TEHRAN (ANA)- Iran has officially joined China’s lunar exploration program, with plans to send a scientific payload aboard the upcoming Chang’e-8 mission.
TEHRAN (ANA)- A joint specialized meeting was held between the Iranian Space Research Institute and the Petroleum Industry Research Institute with the aim of developing scientific and technological cooperation.
TEHRAN (ANA)- Head of Iran's Space Agency Hassan Salarieh announced that the country plans to send domestically-developed satellites into geostationary equatorial orbits (GEOs) in one year.