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Iran’s Rassad sat mission accomplished: ISA chief


Head of Iran Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli says the country’s Rassad (Observation) satellite has successfully completed its mission following its launch in mid-June.

Fazeli told IRNA on Saturday that the Iranian imaging satellite’s life-span finished after orbiting the Earth for around two months.

Despite its 15.3-kilogram weight, which puts it under the category of the micro-satellites, Rassad has all features of a big satellite.

It has undergone all the stages required for its designing, manufacturing, assembly, test and preparation for launch inside the country.

It orbited the globe at an altitude of 260 kilometers 15 times per day.

Its mission was to take images of the planet’s surface and relay them to Earth-based stations along with telemetric information.

The satellite was equipped with solar panels and used solar energy to operate.

Tehran also plans to launch the country’s first manned mission to space by 2019.

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