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RE: Omid satellite

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Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar here on Monday said that Iran will launch its national satellite in the near future.
Najar extended his congratulations to the Supreme Leader and the Iranian nation on the firing of first satellite on Sunday.
Iran successfully launched its first domestic communication satellite on Sunday night.
The satellite is named Safir-E-Omid (the envoy of hope).
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After report of successful test, Iran prepares to launch real satellite into space. Iranian Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar reportedly said Monday that his country was ready to launch a "national satellite" into orbit in the near future.

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Correction:

A top Iranian official corrected earlier reports by Iranian state media that a satellite had been sent into orbit, explaining that only a rocket had been launched.
According to state media, Saturday's test of the two-stage rocket, called the Safir, or Ambassador, was successful, as it broadcast footage of the night-time launch.
State TV said the Omid research satellite will gather atmospheric data from a low orbit but did not give a date for its launch.

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Iran has launched its first domestically-manufactured satellite into orbit, reports say.
An Iranian news network, IRINN, showed footage of what it said was a communications satellite named Safir-e Omid (Hope Envoy) being launched.

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Iran has successfully launched the Omid satellite.

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Next week, Iran is to launch the country's first homemade satellite, named Omid (meaning, Hope), aboard a Iranian Kavoshgar-1 carrier rocket, stationed at Iran's new space centre, in northern Semnan province. The Kavoshgar-1 carrier rocket closely resembles the Iranian Shahab-3 missile.

The scientific research satellite will be placed into a low Earth orbit, and will help improve communication services, and also monitor natural disasters.

With a successful launch, Omid will be the countries second satellite in orbit; and Iran will become the 11th spacenation to build and launch its own domestic satellite since the Soviet Union successfully launched the Sputnik satellite in 1957. A Russian-made Iranian satellite, Sina-1, was launched aboard a Russian rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in October 2005.