https://spacewatch.global/tag/major-general-hossein-salami/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:00:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/major-general-hossein-salami/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/01/iran-launches-satellites-amid-ballistic-program-concerns/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:00:29 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=53435 Iran launched three satellites, Kayhan-2, Hatef-1, and Mahda into space on Sunday to a minimum orbit of 450km (280 miles). Kayhan-2 and Hatef-1 are nanosatellites that Iran will use to evaluate narrowband communication and geopositioning technology. However, the much bigger Mahda satellites will help the nation test the accuracy of its Simorgh rocket in delivering multiple cargoes to space. ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/05/spacewatchgl-perspectives-on-irans-satellite-launch-gawdat-bahgat-on-the-launch-defying-maximum-pressure/ Mon, 11 May 2020 13:00:03 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=22332 On 22 April 2020 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) successfully launched a small satellite - the Noor-1 (Farsi for 'Light') - on a previously unseen satellite launch vehicle called the Qased.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/04/irans-military-satellite-launch-full-of-surprises/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 05:00:30 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=21858 Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it had launched a military satellite on the morning (Iranian time) of 22 April 2020 on board a previously unknown satellite launch vehicle the IRGC calls Qassed.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2020/02/irans-latest-attempt-to-launch-a-satellite-fails-again/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 06:00:16 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=19293 The latest attempt by Iran to indigenously launch one of its domestically-built satellites has failed, the latest in a string of unsuccessful satellite launches due to engineering problems, poor management, sabotage, or a combination of all of these.]]>