INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Iranian Space Agency launched a satellite called "Khayyam" with a wide range of environmental functions at 10:22 local time on Tuesday
It was put into orbit by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan.In the past years, the country has made good
satellite, Salarieh said in a press conference on Wednesday.Iran's space industry has acquired the technical knowledge of manufacturing
productivity in the agriculture sector, surveying water resources, managing natural disasters, confronting deforestation, monitoring border
areas and mining explorations are among the main objectives of the satellite.In order to receive the data of this satellite, in addition to
recent cooperation with Russia to access remote-sensing satellites, Salarieh stated that Iran's space industry has started indigenization of
will continue this path and in the coming years, domestically produce, launch, and orbit satellites of higher resolution, to meet the
of the day, Salarieh said that the researchers showed that a satellite with an accuracy of one meter was needed, which required a period of
one to two years to be produced.After conducting preliminary studies and implementing the conceptual design of the "Khayyam" satellite, the
technical specifications of the satellite were determined, he added.To order a satellite, it is necessary to determine parameters such as
regulations, telecommunication systems, communication, and sensing systems in different peaks, as well as controlling the condition and
stability of the satellite, he explained.After ordering this to the Russian company, the project monitoring procedures were carried out in
different departments as well as various tests, and finally, the satellite was delivered to Iran and placed in a 500 km orbit.Referring to
the cost of the Khayyam satellite, Salarieh explained that according to the weight, spectrum, and accuracy, the price of remote-sensing
satellites is different, and this project is estimated to cost around $40 million.Homegrown satellitesIran launched its first satellite,
called Omid (literally meaning hope), in 2009
Rasad (literally meaning observation) satellite was also sent into orbit in 2011.In 2012, Iran successfully put its third domestically
manufactured satellite, named Navid (literally meaning promise), into orbit.The first and most advanced homegrown remote-sensing satellite
is Pars-1, which has been designed and constructed by the researchers of the Iranian Space Research Center.Pars-1 is supposed to take
pictures of all parts of the country using a high-resolution 15-meter-camera and send its photos from a 500-kilometer distance to the earth
stations using a high-powered telecommunication transceiver.According to previous reports, the Iranian Space Agency has plans to launch a
number of satellites including Pars-1, Pars-2, Zafar-2, and Nahid-2.In February, the Iranian Space Agency announced that the Kosar
satellite, designed and launched by 8 technological companies, was scheduled to be in a 500-kilometer orbit by the current [Iranian
calendar] year (which began on March 21).Iran ranks 11th in space science worldwideIran is among the 10 countries with knowledge of space
space technology has improved from 95 in 1996 to 11 in 2017.FB/MG
