forward communication satellite / satellite manufacturing industry / launch site / space technology / peaceful applications / space technologies / medium low earth orbit sun-synchronous satellite / manufacturing satellites / manufacturing / Space technology applications / satellite receiving station / technology senior expert / home-made low-orbit research satellite / /
Organization
Iranian Space Agency / Mahdasht Space Center / Committee for International Cooperation / United Nations / Microwave Remote Sensing Department of Mahdasht Satellite Receiving Station / Supreme Space Council / Space Center / Committee Bureau / Iran's Supreme Space Council / Office for Specialized International Affairs / Committee of Peaceful Uses of Outer Space / United Nations Committee of Peaceful Uses of Outer Space / /
author / Minister of Communications and Information Technology / journalist and scientific-technical writer for about two decades / President / freelance journalist and scientific-technical writer / Envoy / member / /
Technology
remote sensing / Information Technology / Microwave / /
Heading to Space for Peace On 4th February 2008 I.R. Iran successfully launched the sub-orbital rocket Safir (stands for “Envoy”) from its newly opened domestic launch site in northeast. This test was