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[ekemenirtu]

Iran test-launches new domestically-manufactured satellite launch vehicle

Iran test-launches new domestically-manufactured satellite satellite launch vehicle​

Monday, 01 February 2021 5:17 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 01 February 2021 7:20 PM ]


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Iran’s Defense Ministry tests Zuljanah domestically-designed and manufactured satellite launch vehicle on February 1, 2021.
Iran’s Defense Ministry has unveiled a new domestically-designed and manufactured satellite launch vehicle capable of putting satellites into an orbit of 500km above the ground.
Ahmad Hosseini, a spokesman for the Iranian Defense Ministry’s Space Department, said on Monday that the new satellite launch vehicle is based on the most powerful solid fuel engine technology attained by the country’s specialists for the first time.

“For the first time in the field of space science, the first test launch of Zuljanah satellite launch vehicle has been carried out after achieving the most powerful solid fuel engine technology with the goal of conducting suborbital test,” he added.

The three-phase satellite launch vehicle, which is comparable with the most state-of-the-art ones in the world in technical aspects, enjoys two solid thrust phases and one liquid thrust phase, he added.
The official noted that the launch carrier is capable of carrying a satellite weighing 220kg to an orbit of 500km above the ground.
Hosseini said one of the most important achievements of this test is making operational the country's most powerful solid fuel engine enjoying a 750-tonne thrust.
The satellite launch vehicle will be ready to put operational satellites into orbit after the completion of research tests, he noted, adding that reducing costs and increasing the speed of achieving objectives are among its main features.
Iran has used various fluid-fuel satellite launch vehicles to put satellites into orbit.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in April last year successfully launched and placed the country’s first military satellite into the orbit.

IRGC shoots Iran's first military satellite into orbit
Iran’s IRGC has, for the first time, launched and successfully placed into orbit a military satellite.
The elite force fired the satellite — dubbed Nour (Light)-1 — aboard Qased (Carrier) satellite launch vehicle during an operation that was staged in Dasht-e Kavir, Iran’s sprawling central desert.
The satellite was placed into the orbit 425 kilometers above Earth’s surface.
It came after Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said in February last year that Iran’s satellite launch vehicles have nothing to do with its military activities and lie completely outside the country’s defensive practices.

No military aspect to Iran’s satellite carriers: Defense minister
Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says Iran’s satellite carriers have nothing to do with its military activities, lying completely outside the country’s defensive practices.
“The satellite launch vehicles have nothing to do with the subject of missiles, and constitute a completely non-defensive and non-military issue,” Hatami said.

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[ekemenirtu]

This launch vehicle, dubbed Zuljanah , appears to be more powerful and capable of launching a heavier payload to a more distant orbit than any other vehicle publicly tested by Iran so far.

To the best of my knowledge, no other member of the OIC has tested a space launch vehicle, yet.

Not Turkey, not Pakistan, not Egypt, not Iraq, not Syria, not Bangladesh, not Nigeria, not Saudi Arabia, not Indonesia, not Malaysia, not Kazakhstan, not Algeria, not Morocco.

This is inexcusable in light of North Korean achievements in the space launch sector and the tremendous hardships the citizens of an isolated, sanctioned, embargoed North Korea have had to endure.

Time for OIC members to pull their socks up.

To the best of my knowledge, no country indigenous to the African, Latin American and ASEAN region has launched a satellite to space based on indigenous efforts, so far either.

 

[Nilgiri]

Not Turkey

Turkey did so recently, its a sounding rocket that they are shaping up to be larger platform over time:

Space Programs

defencehub.live

Roketsan is going places, this decade should be interesting for them.

 

[ekemenirtu]

Turkey did so recently, its a sounding rocket that they are shaping up to be larger platform over time:

Space Programs

defencehub.live

Roketsan is going places, this decade should be interesting for them.

You should know the difference between a space launch vehicle and a sounding rocket.

Pakistan was supposedly one of the first Asian countries to launch a sounding rocket, ahead of much more populous India, if it quenches your thirst for knowledge.

However, that was not a satellite launch vehicle or a space launch vehicle.

Good luck to the diligent Turkish engineers, scientists and researchers, nevertheless.

As of now, Iran remains the only OIC member that tested one or more satellite launch vehicles.

Other Muslim majority countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Algeria are unfortunately missing from these endeavours. Iraq and Syria have largely been ruined. Both Iraq and Syria also happen to be neighbours of Turkey.

Really unfortunate and depressing circumstances there.

 

[Zafer]

Coincidentally there is an announcement to be made on Tuesday this week about Turkish space programs. We will get to know what is in the minds of Turkish space scientists.

 

[Nilgiri]

Pakistan was supposedly one of the first Asian countries to launch a sounding rocket, ahead of much more populous India, if it quenches your thirst for knowledge.

Yes it was a NASA derived one...and thus ahead of much more populous China too...if we are talking about Asian space program results here downstream that all had very different initial conditions.

There is after all a reason why Pakistan has not launched since US sanctions after the 65 and 71 wars. Their lack of scientific and industrial application here plays a big role among other reasons as to why they continue to not harness their ballistic missile technology in any such effort either (unlike say Iran).

Turkey has the industrial capacity and application know how for it along with the ambition. The sounding rocket reached space (twice I believe, once in 2018 and once in 2020). It will iterate a few years down the line into a space launch vehicle (for micro sats up to 100 kg it seems is their objective by 2025), thanks for correcting me on that.

 

[ekemenirtu]

Yes, very much like the Indian effort that was initiated long after the Pakistani effort, and that was derived from a transfer of technology from NASA.

Interestingly, much of the Indian effort spearheaded by late Dr Abdul Kalam was derived mostly from knowledge acquired through - colloquially described as stolen from - the United States during his stint there.

Further assistance in ample quantity from the USSR, Russian Federation and several European nations bolstered Indian attempted ICBM development in the guise of a civilian space programme.

Yes it was a NASA derived one...and thus ahead of much more populous China too...if we are talking about Asian space program results here downstream that all had very different initial conditions.

Lack of vision, political acumen and many other internal deficiencies led to that status.

Very different from the Indian experience of abundant tech transfer during Dr APJ Kalam's stint in the United States and subsequent free-flow of tech from various European nations, Russia and the USSR.

There is after all a reason why Pakistan has not launched since US sanctions after the 65 and 71 wars. Their lack of scientific and industrial application here plays a big role among other reasons as to why they continue to not harness their ballistic missile technology in any such effort either (unlike say Iran).

I hope so.

However, the results so far have not been particularly worthwhile.

Hopefully, future Turkish efforts will be able to match the Japanese space programme.

Turkey has the industrial capacity and application know how for it along with the ambition. The sounding rocket reached space (twice I believe, once in 2018 and once in 2020). It will iterate a few years down the line into a space launch vehicle (for micro sats up to 100 kg it seems is their objective by 2025), thanks for correcting me on that.

 

[Nilgiri]

Yes, very much like the Indian effort that was initiated long after the Pakistani effort, and that was derived from a transfer of technology from NASA.

Interestingly, much of the Indian effort spearheaded by late Dr Abdul Kalam was derived mostly from knowledge acquired through - colloquially described as stolen from - the United States during his stint there.

Further assistance in ample quantity from the USSR, Russian Federation and several European nations bolstered Indian attempted ICBM development in the guise of a civilian space programme.




Lack of vision, political acumen and many other internal deficiencies led to that status.

Very different from the Indian experience of abundant tech transfer during Dr APJ Kalam's stint in the United States and subsequent free-flow of tech from various European nations, Russia and the USSR.



I hope so.

However, the results so far have not been particularly worthwhile.

Hopefully, future Turkish efforts will be able to match the Japanese space programme.

That's true, the scout SLV and everything....viking engine from France etc etc.

I guess in a way it was all originally stolen from the 3rd reich's program ultimately.

You ever read about operation paperclip out of interest?

 

[Raptor]

Yes, very much like the Indian effort that was initiated long after the Pakistani effort, and that was derived from a transfer of technology from NASA.

Interestingly, much of the Indian effort spearheaded by late Dr Abdul Kalam was derived mostly from knowledge acquired through - colloquially described as stolen from - the United States during his stint there.

Further assistance in ample quantity from the USSR, Russian Federation and several European nations bolstered Indian attempted ICBM development in the guise of a civilian space programme.




Lack of vision, political acumen and many other internal deficiencies led to that status.

Very different from the Indian experience of abundant tech transfer during Dr APJ Kalam's stint in the United States and subsequent free-flow of tech from various European nations, Russia and the USSR.



I hope so.

However, the results so far have not been particularly worthwhile.

Hopefully, future Turkish efforts will be able to match the Japanese space programme.

Well yeah even Americans derived and pushed their space programme with the help of german scientists and engineers

 

[ekemenirtu]

That's true, the scout SLV and everything....viking engine from France etc etc.

I guess in a way it was all originally stolen from the 3rd reich's program ultimately.

You ever read about operation paperclip out of interest?

If you may have noticed, the majority of the population in the United States, Russia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is of European descent.

The majority of the population in Europe is also of European descent.

Any technology developed by any European peoples, irrespective of their location, can be attributed to European peoples - for obvious reasons. You might call this a tautology, if you like.