Posted on 10/26/2005 1:19:42 PM PDT by markedmannerf
NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iran has completed preparations to place its first satellite into orbit.
Iranian sources said the Sina reconnaissance satellite would be launched from a Russian booster on Oct. 27. They said the Chinese-origin Sina would be launched from the Plesetsk launch site along with satellites from Britain, China and Russia.
The Sina launch has been twice postponed because of technical difficulties. The sources said Iran failed to complete Sina on schedule, and that an integration difficulties with the Russian Kosmos-3 booster in June 2005 delayed operations at Plesetsk.
The Iranian embassy in Moscow said Sina would be launched on schedule. The embassy said Sina would be capable of monitoring natural disasters and urban growth.
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Iran will soon be able to deliver a nuclear missile to the US.
Iran's not launching anything. Russia is.
Hopefully, yet another Russian launch shall fail.
Hopefully, not before we deliver a few to them...in a crowd pleasing, urban renewal, type fashion.
A perfect test for our hunter killer satellites.
Small correction:
IRAN READY TO LAUNCH SATELLITE SPACE LAZER TARGET
also a test for some basement dwelling hackers.
Good Point...do your remember the ole ASAT missile the USAF developed a few years ago? The USAF tested it once, successfully, but then never massed produced them...well...there's probably still a half dozen or so mothballed out at Eglin. Might be time to get them out of storage.
Looks like we will have to use our "Anti Iranicator Beam" on this threat.
This is doable...
And they bought the bloody thing from the Chicoms.
Thank you bill clinton.
I sincerely hope the thing blows up on the launch pad and takes a bunch of revolutionary guards and Russian and Chinese techs with it.
"do your remember the ole ASAT missile the USAF developed a few years ago? The USAF tested it once, successfully, but then never massed produced them...well...there's probably still a half dozen or so mothballed out at Eglin. Might be time to get them out of storage."
Sounds as though this is a good opportunity for some quality control testing for those missiles...
The Iranians launch a Chinese satellite on a Russian rocket. Hmmm, I wonder if the Iranian Space Center is a phone bank in India???
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