Iran’s Pars 1 satellite enters space after Russian launch

DUBAI : Russia launched into put apart an Iranian learn satellite which will scan Iran’s topography from an orbit of 500 km (310 miles), Iran’s deliver media reported on Thursday.

The a ways off Pars 1 learn-sensing satellite, launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, weighs 134 kg (295 kilos) and is equipped with three cameras.

The cosmodrome, which came into carrier in 2016, is in the Amur region of Russia’s Far East, no longer a ways from the Russian border with China and about 1,500 km (930 miles) from the port of Vladivostok.

“Our most modern home birth bases enact no longer but own the ability of injecting satellites at the shapely inclination for a solar-synchronous orbit, therefore our use of a Russian birth putrid,” Iran’s Recordsdata and Communications Minister Issa Zarepour told deliver TV.

Russia sent Iran’s a ways off Khayyam sensing satellite into orbit in 2022 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, reflecting deeper scientific cooperation between the two U.S.-sanctioned worldwide locations.