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Iran launches 2d satellite into orbit
10:51 - 16.06.11
Iran said it launched a satellite into orbit yesterday that Western
aerospace analysts said could be used for limited military
reconnaissance and also to monitor crops and track damage from
earthquakes, flooding, and other natural disasters, the New York Times
reported.
It was the second time that an Iranian rocket has carried a satellite
into orbit and took place more than two years after Iran joined the
international space club by launching its first satellite.
Iran released few details about the satellite, which it calls Rasad-1,
or Observation-1. Western analysts said it weighed about 100 pounds -
meaning that the light payload and the modest rocket carrying it bear
little resemblance to an intercontinental missile and its heavy
warhead.
`It's a significant step forward for the Iranians,'' said Charles P.
Vick, an expert on Iranian rockets at GlobalSecurity.org, a private
research group in Alexandria, Va.
Vick noted that the Iranians had announced that Rasad-1 would be
lofted last summer, but the mission was delayed.
`It's taken them far longer than they advertised,'' Vick said in an
interview. The reason, he added, appeared to be managerial failures
and `sanctions that have been having a significant impact on their
getting foreign technology and hardware.''
He described the Iranian satellite as an experimental craft designed
mainly for tracking the Earth's resources from space. But the
spacecraft, he said, `could also be used for low-resolution
reconnaissance.''
Tert.am
10:51 - 16.06.11
Iran said it launched a satellite into orbit yesterday that Western
aerospace analysts said could be used for limited military
reconnaissance and also to monitor crops and track damage from
earthquakes, flooding, and other natural disasters, the New York Times
reported.
It was the second time that an Iranian rocket has carried a satellite
into orbit and took place more than two years after Iran joined the
international space club by launching its first satellite.
Iran released few details about the satellite, which it calls Rasad-1,
or Observation-1. Western analysts said it weighed about 100 pounds -
meaning that the light payload and the modest rocket carrying it bear
little resemblance to an intercontinental missile and its heavy
warhead.
`It's a significant step forward for the Iranians,'' said Charles P.
Vick, an expert on Iranian rockets at GlobalSecurity.org, a private
research group in Alexandria, Va.
Vick noted that the Iranians had announced that Rasad-1 would be
lofted last summer, but the mission was delayed.
`It's taken them far longer than they advertised,'' Vick said in an
interview. The reason, he added, appeared to be managerial failures
and `sanctions that have been having a significant impact on their
getting foreign technology and hardware.''
He described the Iranian satellite as an experimental craft designed
mainly for tracking the Earth's resources from space. But the
spacecraft, he said, `could also be used for low-resolution
reconnaissance.''
Tert.am