Posted on 04/22/2020 5:12:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The United States has assessed that Iran successfully launched a military satellite into orbit for the first time on Wednesday, two US Defense Department officials said, according to CNN.
The move is seen as a significant step because the country's space program utilizes the same technology that would be needed to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile, which would increase Tehran's capability to strike enemy targets.
US Space Command is tracking two objects in orbit that were launched from within Iran, one of the officials said, according to CNN. One is a rocket body and the other is assessed to be the satellite. The rocket body may still be in orbit because the Iranian program is not sophisticated enough to have perfected re-entry into the atmosphere.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said earlier on Wednesday it had successfully launched the country’s first military satellite into orbit.
It claimed that the satellite, named Noor, was launched from the central desert of Iran. CNN has not been able to independently verify the success of the launch.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo later called for Iran to be held accountable for the launch of the satellite, adding he thinks the action violated a United Nations Security Council resolution, Reuters reports.
US officials say that Iran’s satellite launches defy UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
Resolution 2231 enshrined Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States and calls on Iran to refrain for up to eight years from work on ballistic missiles designed to deliver nuclear weapons.
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I would think that would certainly help. I just wonder if it is for military surveillance or if it is loaded with weapons to attack our satellites.
“This is why President Trump used the words “shoot down”.”
That is an astute observation, and one that I missed completely, even though I thought the wording of his Tweet to the Navy was odd.
It wasn’t, it was precise.
But an EMP from space would be devastating to an entire hemisphere.
I thought we had airplanes that can shoot down satellites.
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We have/had planes that which carry MISSILES that could shoot down satellites
And Navy Ships.
Yea but that’s too far above the original questioners pay grade - just keeping it simple
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