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Iran's Nahid-2 satellite deployed flawlessly, transmits first bach of collected data

Iran Press TV

Friday, 25 July 2025 5:40 PM

Nahid-2, an advanced Iranian research and telecommunication satellite, has communicated back the first batch of data that it has gleaned after successfully entering its designated orbit, the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) announced.

The ISA reported the development on Friday following the satellite's launch from Vostochny Cosmodrome, a space launch facility in eastern Russia, on board a Soyuz rocket earlier in the day.

The body confirmed receiving the first round of "telemetray data" — data collected and transmitted automatically by a satellite — from the orbiter.

According to the report, the development marked the satellite's flawless deployment and proper functioning.

The orbiter boasts being designed and built by Iranian scientists and engineers under the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, with key support from the Space Research Center and a coalition of domestic knowledge-based firms.

Designed to deliver a wide array of communications and research capabilities, Nahid-2 will support secure data transmission, onboard storage, and direct connectivity between satellite systems and mission control.

Observers have billed it as a leap forward in Iran's space-based communications infrastructure.

In a first for the Islamic Republic's satellite fleet, Nahid-2 will also serve as a testbed for chemical and hot gas propulsion systems, technologies used for attitude control, or the precise management of a satellite's orientation in orbit.

Adding to its suite of innovations, the satellite will conduct GPS-free radio positioning using Two-Line Element (TLE) data, a standardized orbital format that allows for autonomous location tracking in space.

Back in May, the Space Research Center announced the country's preparations to launch the satellite as part of its rapidly advancing space program, with multiple high-tech projects also moving swiftly through development.

Announcing the pending launch back then, Vahid Yazdanian, head of the center, also said the Islamic Republic's Pars-2 remote sensing satellite was officially in the launch queue too.

The official further revealed that several additional research satellites were under construction, forming part of a broader push to elevate Iran's self-reliance and technological prowess in space.