Iran Launches Rocket With Animals Into Space(Tehran)
2/3/2010, 11:47 a.m. EST
Thomas ErdbrinkThe Associated Press(AP) — c ()-2010, The Washington Post
TEHRAN-Iran said it successfully fired a new, domestically produced research rocket into space Wednesday, with several live animals aboard-a feat that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said illustrated his country's technological prowess.
State television broadcast images of the launch of the 10-foot long Kavoshgar (Explorer)-3, and showed officials putting a mouse, two turtles and about a dozen creatures that looked like worms inside a capsule that was placed in the rocket before it blasted off.
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The capsule, which the Kavoshgar-3 rocket carried into space, landed safely later Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Studies on the live animals that were inside are underway.
...just wondering. Can't find any tracking info on it.
There was a satellite Omid launched 2/2/09 which reached an orbit of 383km and reentered in 4/09.
The capsule, which the Kavoshgar-3 rocket carried into space, landed safely later Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Studies on the live animals that were inside are underway.
...just wondering. Can’t find any tracking info on it.
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Great catch,,,
This is the first story I heard,,,
It didn’t make it into orbit,,,
I can’t find any info on the Kavoshgar-3,,,payload/etc.,,,
Still lookin’...