From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
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"ran on Sunday said it had successfully tested what it called a rocket
that had reached space. The announcement, made on state-run television, was
unclear, but appeared to refer to Iran's efforts to launch commercial
satellites into orbit.

Iran's Science and Technology and Defense ministries built the craft, the
state-run television quoted Mohsen Bahrami, the head of Iran's Space
Research Center, as saying.

Bahrami provided no other details beyond saying that Iran had successfully
launched what he called a space rocket or space missile.

Iran in the past has announced that it wanted to be able to send its own
satellites, including commercial ones, into orbit. But it has revealed
little information about the project.

In 2005, Iran launched its first such satellite in a joint project with Russia.

Iran hopes to launch four more satellites by 2010, the government has said,
to increase the number of land and mobile telephone lines to 80 million
from 22 million. It also hopes to expand its satellite capabilities to let
Internet users to rise to 35 million from 5.5 million in the next five
years.

Science and Technology Minister Mohammad Soleimani said Sunday that Iran
would speed up its space program, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"Investment in space is very serious and requires time, but we are
trying to speed this up," IRNA quoted Soleimani as saying. "

Attain orbit & you're capable of dropped things from orbit anywhere on earth.

I wonder if they will sell/help with NK'es "satellite launching
capabilities"?


Adam

Adam

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