Via Press TV
Head of Iran’s Space
Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country plans to send a living organism into
space on board the Pishgam (Pioneer) satellite carrier in the near future.
“Iran’s Space Agency (ISA) is fully prepared to send the Pishgam satellite carrier bearing a bio-capsule with a living creature,” Fazeli said Sunday.
He expressed hope
that the Pishgam satellite carrier, previously known as the Kavoshgar 5
(Explorer 5), would “soon” be successfully launched into space carrying a
monkey. Iran sent its
first bio-capsule of living creatures into space in February 2010, using the indigenous
Kavoshgar 3 carrier.
The country
successfully launched its first indigenous data-processing satellite, Omid
(Hope), into orbit in 2009. As part of a plan to develop its space program,
Iran also successfully launched its second satellite, dubbed Rassad
(Observation), into the earth's orbit in June 2011. Rassad's mission was to
take images of the Earth and transmit them along with telemetry information to
ground stations.
Iran also
launched its domestically-built Navid-e Elm-o Sanat (Harbinger of Science and
Industry) satellite into orbit in February 2012. The records made by the
telecom, measurement and scientific satellite could be used in a wide range of
fields. Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United
Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which was set up in
1959.
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