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).

EghtesadOnline: ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi and directors of Iran’s space program kick-started a weeklong event that coincides with World Space Week.

EghtesadOnline: Iran is set to launch satellite ‘Dousti’ into space in the coming weeks, the ICT minister told a conference in Tehran on occasion of National Space Technology Day.