In a milestone for Iran’s space sector, a space tug domestically designed and manufactured by Iranian experts and technicians has been launched into space aboard a homegrown satellite launch vehicle (SLV).
Iran plans to launch a new satellite using a Russian Soyuz rocket by the end of the next Persian year (March 20, 2026), which will be capable of imaging and providing Internet of Things (IoT) services, the CEO of Omidfaza said.
The head of the Iranian Space Agency Hassan Salarieh told Mehr News Agency that two more satellites would be launched within a month.
In a new win for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, Samsung Next, which has invested in some 70 Israeli start-ups so far, is the latest to join the list of companies that have left the Israeli tech sector.
Iran’s minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) said all cities of the country will be connected with the optical fiber network system in the near future.
Iran is among the top 10 countries in the world in the space industry and has attained the most sophisticated space technology in the world, Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Issa Zarepour said.
Iran successfully launched its Pars-1 research and remote sensing satellite into orbit, placing it 500 kilometers above Earth’s surface.
The head of Islamic World Science & Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC) said the Islamic Republic of Iran stood in the first place among Islamic countries in terms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies.
Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology says the country plans to send domestically-developed satellites into geostationary equatorial orbits (GEOs) onboard homegrown launch vehicles within ten years.
Iran’s minister of communications and information technology (ICT) said the country’s space industry will reach the GEO orbit in 2028.
