https://spacewatch.global/tag/president-muhammad-khatami/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/president-muhammad-khatami/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2017/07/irans-space-programme-political-football-amidst-economic-decrepitude/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:00:31 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=5052 In the space of one week Iranian space officials have simultaneously announced plans to start their own satellite navigation programme and that an old satellite built by an Italian company is too expensive to launch and so will be consigned to a space museum. To anyone who closely observes Iranian space developments it is enough […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/06/iran-negotiating-italy-return-mesbah-satellite/ Tue, 07 Jun 2016 07:00:34 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=707 Iranian officials are in talks with Italy for the return of the Iranian Mesbah (Farsi for ‘Lantern’) satellite, according to the head of the Iranian Space Agency Mohsen Bahrami. The Mesbah satellite was seized by Italy and Russia just prior to its scheduled launch in 2006, due to the imposition of the international sanctions regime […]]]>