Iran's Space Planning

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Iran’s Space Plans

Science & Technology Budget Three Year Fiscal Planning Cycle

March 25, - April 12, 2008

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he opinions and evaluations stated here in are only the authors and cannot be construed to reflect those of any Government agency, company, institute or association. It is based on public information, circumstantial evidence, informed speculation, declassified U.S. intelligence community documents, official Iranian and North Korean government documents and histories, oral histories, interviews and reverse engineering analysis. As with all data regarding the Iranian and North Korean strategic space and ballistic missile programs, this analysis is subject to revision--and represents a work in progress

Iran’s Science & Technology Budget Three Year Fiscal Planning Cycle

Iran plans to launch two more research and development “Safir” boosters into space to finish its development before attempting to launch the Omid [Hope] scientific satellite in the summer of 2008 according to its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The defense minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said in a speech on February 4, 2008 during the inauguration of the new Iranian Space launch Center located in Semnan province. The space industry infrastructure located in the the Zelzal (earthquake), Shahid Hemmat Industrial group R&D missile & space industry infrastructure near Hamasin a suburb of Tehran in the Tehran province.

Omid [Hope] Satellite

He indicated that the Omid [Hope] satellite would be launched during the next Khordad-87 between May 21 and June 22, 2008 or during the following Khordad during the year 2008 which started March 20, 2008 for the Iranian Islamic calendar. C ompleting the ten year research and development Omid [Hope] satellite project with its successful orbiting in 2008 is mandated to be completed before March 20, 2009 . It is to be placed in a high inclination orbit (perhaps 62-64 degrees) with a 650 kilometer circular obit altitude passing over Iran six times daily. The box shaped satellite has many external antennas’ on its outer surfaces that are covered with a thermal insulation blanket. There are no obvious solar arrays on the outer shell indicating battery powered a short life satellite. It contains many black box instruments giving it a mass in the 40-100 kilogram range as expected.