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Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit

Posted by timothy on from the up-in-the-air-junior-birdman dept.

Dekortage writes "'Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit,' announced Iran's President Ahmadinejad yesterday. The satellite, named Omid ('hope'), was launched to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Video shown on Iranian television shows a Safir-2 rocket rising into the sky, as a follow-up to a test firing last August."

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  1. Not yet? by Bearhouse · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some US Gov sources claim launch was a failure:

    http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1927773920080819

    Nowadays, I understand that tracking information on satellites is pretty much in the public domain. Anybody got a link for a track on this one?

  2. Monotheism = Islam by dusanv · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why don't you tell us, assuming you're from the West somewhere? Islam doesn't regard Christianity as strictly monotheistic because of the whole son of god and trinity business. Monotheism is really just a code word for Islam. And it's not just a question for polytheists. Atheists aren't monotheistic either.