Iran successfully launched a Qased (“Messenger”) launch vehicle at 0400 GMT on 22 April 2020 from the Shahroud Missile Test Site. The Qasad, which had not been launched before, is thought to be a derivative of the Safir launch vehicle family, itself a derivative of...
Nasaspaceflight.com reports that the Safir 2A Simorgh launch vehicle has suffered another failure. The launch is reported to have taken place at 1545 GMT from the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in the Semnan Province of Iran. The initial part of the launch went well with the...
At 0030 GMT on 15 January 2019, the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) attempted to launch the AMIR KABIR-1 (PAYAM) satellite into Low Earth Orbit (LEO), utilising its three-stage Simorgh-Basir light launch vehicle. This launch is reported to have ended in failure due to an...
During 27 July, the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran), conducted a launch of its “Simorgh” – meaning Phoenix in Farsi – light launch vehicle. The launch was the inaugural mission from the Imam Khomeini Space Launch Center (IKSLC), Semnan, Iran....
To coincide with the United Nations “World Press Freedom Day” which was on 3 May, the BBC has issued a joint statement with a group of international broadcasters noting that the jamming of news broadcasts by certain nation states is damaging freedom....
Aware that North Korea is much further advanced than Iran with its nuclear weapons programme (North Korea has fission-class nuclear weapons, Iran does not yet have them) and appreciating that North Korea is now verbally threatening the...
