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Iran set to unveil new domestic satellite
by Staff Writers
Tehran (UPI) Dec 24, 2012


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Iran's space agency says it will unveil a domestically manufactured satellite named the Nahid in February on Iran's National Space Technology Day.

"The project to complete the satellite is going well, and we hope that the satellite will be unveiled on National Space Technology Day" Feb. 2, Hamid Fazeli, director of the Iran Space Agency, said.

The Nahid will join two other satellites -- Fjar (Dawn) and Sharifsat -- in Iran's space program although Fazeli did not elaborate on the technology and mission of any of them, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.

The Fjar and Sharifsat satellites will be launched into space by the end of the current Iranian calendar year ending March 20, he said.

The Fjar satellite would be launched into orbit from the new Imam Khomeini Space Center, Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said.

Iran launched its first domestically made data-processing satellite, the Omid (Hope), in 2009.

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Iran to unveil home-made satellite in Feb.: report
Tehran (XNA) Dec 24, 2012
Iran Space Agency (ISA) has announced that it will unveil a new home-made satellite in February, Tehran Times daily reported on Sunday. Director of ISA, Hamid Fazeli, said Saturday that a new domestically-manufactured satellite, named the Nahid, will be unveiled on Feb. 2, 2013, which is Iran's National Space Technology Day, according to the report. "The project to complete the satel ... read more


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