Several international satellite providers, including Eutelsat and Intelsat, stopped the broadcast of a number of Iranian channels on July 1, 2013.[/caption]TEHRAN (FNA)- Tehran is preparing to orbit two new home-made satellites by the end of the Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2014), a senior official in Iran's Space Agency (ISA) announced early December.
"Tests are being conducted on the two satellites of Sharif and Tadbir before the launching process," Hamid Fazeli said.
Early in September, Presidential Advisor and the ISA Chief Akbar Torkan said that the first satellite to be launched in the new government is called Tadbir."
Earlier this year, Chancellor of Irans Sharif University of Technology Reza Rousta Azad announced that Iran would launch into orbit a new home-made satellite, called 'Sharif Sat', by the end of summer.
We are through with building Sharif Sat and the satellite is waiting for launch, Rousta Azad told FNA in June.
Reminding that several more satellites are waiting for launch, he expressed the hope that Iran could send Sharif Sat into orbit in the first half of the current Iranian year (which started on March 21).
Rousta Azad said that Sharif Sat would orbit at a distance around 500 kilometers from the Earth, adding that the satellite would be launched on the back of home-made 'Safir B1' (Ambassador B1) carrier.
Earlier this year, Fazeli announced that the country would send 6 new home-made satellites, mostly made by Iranian universities, to the space in the current Iranian year.
"Based on the foreseen timeline, Fajr, Sharif Sat, Tolou, Zafar, and A-Test will be sent to the space by the end of the current year," Fazeli told reporters in Tehran.
He said that Mesbah is also among the satellites to be sent into orbit this year.
Omid (hope) was Iran's first research satellite that was designed for gathering information and testing equipment. After orbiting for three months, Omid successfully completed its mission without any problem. It completed more than 700 orbits over seven weeks and reentered the Earth's atmosphere on April 25, 2009.
By Fars News Agency
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