INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- Iran will launch a new satellite into orbit by the end of the current Iranian year, which ends on March 20,2023.The statement was
made on Sunday on the sidelines of the 12th Malek Ashtar Festival in Tehran by Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the IRGC
Aerospace Division.Hajizadeh said the Qaem satellite carrier will be used to launch the new home-grown satellite into space.He added this
the adversary now acknowledges Iran's military capabilities.It will be Iran's third military satellite into space
The nation put its second satellite, Nour-2, into orbit in March 2022, and its first spacecraft, Nour-1, in April 2020.The orbiter, which
was charged with conducting reconnaissance missions, was launched from a launchpad located in Iran's Dasht-e Kavir desert aboard the
domestically produced satellite carrier Qassed
It traveled 6.7 km/s for 480 seconds before entering orbit at a 500 km height.Iran was the first Muslim nation to send satellite into space,
according to Major General Hossein Salami, who was speaking on the sidelines of the launch of Nour-2 at the time.The accomplishment, he
said, shows Iran's victory over its adversaries in the technological war who had attempted to obstruct the country's progress.Nour-1 is now
air defense, he stated.The senior commander pointed to General Kenneth McKenzie's comments last year in which he acknowledged that Iran's
deployment of drones had rendered the U.S
said that Iran is leading the world in the development of surface-to-air missiles based on unmanned aerial vehicles
He also credited the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei's prudence for the nation's advancement.Hajizadeh went on
