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State Television Says Iran Launches New Satellite Into Space
An anonymous reader writes State television in Iran is reporting the Islamic Republic has launched a new satellite into space, its fourth in recent years to orbit the Earth. The report Monday quoted Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehghan saying the satellite, designed and built in Iran, is named "Fajr," or dawn in Farsi. The report did not elaborate.
I wonder if the Sputnik launch was accompanied by snarky headline "Soviet News Agency Claims to Have Launched Satellite (that's what they CLAIM, wink, wink)"
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There's nothing particularly impressive anymore about launching a satellite into space.
Cubesats are 10cm x 10cm satellites that can be built using off-the-shelf components and cost as little as $50,000 to produce *and* launch into orbit. (Although launch costs are ramping).
If Iran state media isn't "elaborating" on the nature of the satellite then we have no reason to believe the Iranian government has done anything more impressive than launch a 10cm DIY satellite.
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It's an X10 camera on a USB stick for some advanced Iranian space photography.
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There's nothing particularly impressive anymore about launching a satellite into space.
There are a relatively small group of governments or companies that can do it. The fact that you can hire an American company for "cheap" to do it for you doesn't mean that Mexico can. Norway can't, except as part of the ESA.
That seems too large and too expensive to me. I'm not calling you wrong but why can't you just embed a radio signal emitter and battery in plastic and call it a satellite? If you want to get fancy a slightly larger battery and a small heater.
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My desktop's shivering out of fear.
You absolutely could.
But keep in mind that the principal expense is actually the "launch" part, not the satellite part. It's difficult to translate prices from what an orbital launch costs to achieve in the US vs. what it would cost for the government to achieve an orbital launch in Iran -- but using CubeSats as a metric, consider that the development cost of a CubeSat can be as low as $10k USD, with the remaining cost going to placing the satellite in orbit.
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Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehghan saying the satellite, designed and built in Iran, is named "Fajr," or dawn in Farsi.
I guess the designing and launching of satellites isn't the preserve of the so called "developed" nations only these days. the other month, it was India. Now Iran! Folks, we need to raise the bar.
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I can see your nose... so scandalous.
There's nothing particularly impressive anymore about launching a satellite into space.
What if that country is also developing nuclear weapons? If you can sent a satellite around the world, you can also send a warhead around the world.
The cubesat is trivial to design. The launch vehicle, on the other hand, is a bit tricky.
Nah, it's a GoPro, an arduino board, and an iPhone 3.
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I'm not sure why this is news, according to this article They have done it before. Was that discovered to be a lie? So little info.
The launch of cubesats is a government subsidized program. They use leftover lift capacity on NASA and USAF launches to carry the cubesats into orbit. The cost is not at all reflective of the true cost of launching a satellite.
Norway can't, except as part of the ESA.
Hell, Britain has only done it once.
(Good joke: Britain put a satellite into orbit after cancelling the program because it cost too much, they had one launcher on the pad after the cancellation and it was cheaper to try to launch it than to dismantle it).
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As the OP noted, you can't translate prices for costs of an orbital launch from the US vs. Iran. But the point is that the bulk of the cost is in the launch, not the satellite.
There's nothing particularly impressive anymore about launching a satellite into space.
I could be wrong: but I'm pretty sure that the ability to place anything into orbit shows considerable technical and engineering skill.
The ability to put even a small payload into orbit implies the ability to put a larger payload on an intercontinental suborbital arc... at least based on my time in Kerbal Space Program.
Didn't Iran just cancel their space program?
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Not to mention, the UK did it... from Australia. Whereas Australia has never done it.
An Iranian space launch, with no mention of Islam. Had it been Israel doing it, we'd have been nose deep in this thread in anti-Jewish jokes and bigotry.
Just saying
Some quotes:
The Fajr (Dawn) satellite was successfully placed 450km above Earth on Monday
The satellite was locally made, said the official IRNA news agency, as was its launcher
Fajr satellite, weighing 52kg would be able to take accurate pictures from space.
the 21-metre and 26 tonne launcher, named Safir-Fajr, shows "the ability of Iran to build satellite launchers".
It is a camera but it wasn't launched per se - it's on a very long selfie stick.
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There can't have been many situations in human history where Just launch it into space was genuinely the right (and economical) move.
Actually, the Iranian satellite launch system is 327 Estes Nitro rockets linked together end-to-end. They also increased the size of the engine compartment to house D-Engines instead of C's to boost power. They then mounted a GoMo (Chinese knock off of a GoPro) inside the nosecone with a USB stick attached. It's quite fascinating.
The first test launch failed however when the ignitor fell out due to dollar store scotch tape. The second attempt also failed after realizing the 9v battery in the ignition system was depleted. Finally (third time's the charm), with a more advanced fastening system and a fresh 9v (supposedly from their smoke detector) they had success! Liftoff!
Unless they publish orbital parameters, we don't even know that they've launched a cubesat. It's not like they've never lied before about their capabilities.
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"Nuclear weapon" does not automatically mean "missile warhead". The first nuclear bombs were huge and required B-29s to carry them. Taking that and miniaturizing (and ruggedizing) it to the point where it can launched off the tip of a missile is another matter.
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Perusing the comments I am a bit shocked that nobody else seems to have noticed that the Iranian space agency there has totally ripped off their logo from the United Federation of Planets. I think somebody watched too much next-gen.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is approaching Ceres; by naming their new satellite Dawn, the Iranians have positioned themselves to rip-off NASA press releases for propaganda purposes for their own population.
We have enough space over here already thanks.
they are better than the saudi slavekeepers
how horrible. lying. next they wil claim somebody else has wmd and start a war. imagine that!
The launch of cubesats is a government subsidized program. They use leftover lift capacity on NASA and USAF launches to carry the cubesats into orbit. The cost is not at all reflective of the true cost of launching a satellite.
Yup, it is a bit like saying that you can build and fly a jet across the Atlantic for $100 because there was a last-minute fare special for that price.
The government of Iran has a LONG and ignomineous history of photoshopping images of missile and rocket launches, and then there are all the other phony aerospace and/or military capability claims they have made over the years (like the fake new stealth jet with full-scale mockup (for video of pilot getting in and out) accompanied by video of a (not exactly matching) model flying - which was presented as REAL. and so on.
Iran was once a mighty world-renouned persian empire of reasonably enlightened people, but then the Zoroastrians fell under the rabidly anti-civilizational Muslim hoardes and plunged into darkness. Current Iranians are still living in the religion their ancestors were forced to adopt at the point of a sword, and under the extreme anti-intellectual regimes of the more extreme elements of that religion. By the middle of the last century, the Iranians were very secular and civilized, having gradually pushed-aside much of the insanity of Islam, with many being well-educated and professional. Unfortunately a bunch of rabid radicals in the 70's managed to convince a generation of the "usual suspects" (stupid gullible college kids) to rebel agains the oppression of the Shah (a jerk who'd mis-treated a relative few including some college kids) and bring-in the Ayatollah from his exile in France to lead a glorious Muslim revolution that was not glorious at all; it was a retrograde anti-intellectual play. The result was a tear-down of that civiliazation and new generation of rather vile Muslim leaders who gleefully oppressed and killed FAR MORE Iranians than the Shah ever did, and who have spent decades exporting the wealth of Iran to various terrorist groups favored by the freaks-in-robes who run that land now.
The modern Iran is every bit as anti-modern and anti-civilized as all the other Koran-thumper-run nations and engages in the same practices of blatantly-manipulative paranoia-dependent photo-doctoring that all other closed societies resort to. Remember when the old Soviets used to airbush-out "dis-favored" politicians and when they airbrushed-out various cosmonauts and claimed they were never even TRYING to go to the moon? How about the way the NAZIs had Rommel kill himself and then threw him a state funeral claiming he'd had a heart attack on a battlefield? Remember Saddam's WMD claims (which intelligance agencies all around the world fell for)? These closed, insular societies that lack free speech and a free press are NOT due the presumption of honesty when they maintain control using such media manipulating tactics abd then make such bold claims.
No doubt it was Barack (AKA "Buraq") the flying Muslim horse after which Basack Obama is named. Who needs those dirty old man-made fossil-fuel-burning rockets when you can launch on an eco-friendly "green" flyer that only leaves behind fully-biodegradable "horse apples"?
I would like to point out that that person was also claiming to have WMD at the time, and was threatening their further use against the Kurds.
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Congratulations on completely missing the point, Coward.
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