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Iranian Second Space Launch Center Announced

Senior Technical Analyst

07-21-10 /03-07/25-11

Iran has also announced that it is developing a second space launch center from the first existing launch center of Semnan Range south east of Semnan Iran. This was based on its feasibility study on the mission requirements issue. The minister of Communications and Information Technology, Reza Taqipour announced this on December 14, 2010 in the Tehran region space centers. The limits of the present launch range required this development to be explored and subsequently authorized. One of two location were probably considered for this effort and those probably include the outskirts of the city of Marivan in the western province of Kurdistan which borders Iraq already used to test the Sejjil-2 missile or well into north western part of Iran and the Iman Ali Base near Khorramabad (33 degrees 29 minutes North and 48 degrees, 13 minutes and 56.77 seconds East) in the western Iran province of Lorestan the location of the primary ballistic missile base of Iran. That base apparently recently suffered a major serious fire and explosions among the stored ballistic missile infrastructure setting back the military operational program deployments effort.