Iran Lunches Satellite (View from the space) ماهواره رصد 1

Iran released few details about the satellite, which it calls Rasad-1, or Observation-1. Western experts said it weighed about 100 pounds — meaning that the light payload and the modest rocket carrying it bore little resemblance to an intercontinental missile and its heavy warhead.
Iranian news reports said that the Rasad-1 was built by the Malek-Ashtar University. Analysts in the American intelligence community view the university as having close ties to the Revolutionary Guard, the Islamic Republic's main enforcers.
Still, aerospace experts said the successful launching demonstrated Iranian engineers' growing skill and contrasted with the repeated failures endured by North Korea in trying to place payloads into orbit.

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