Posted on 11/06/2022 9:23:43 AM PST by Salman
Iran announced Saturday the successful test flight of a rocket capable of propelling satellites into space, three months after launching a satellite with the help of Russia.
The United States has repeatedly voiced concern that such launches could boost Iran's ballistic missile technology, extending to the potential delivery of nuclear warheads.
But Iran insists it is not seeking nuclear weapons and that its satellite and rocket launches are for civil or defensive purposes only.
State television reported the "successful suborbital launch of the satellite launcher named Ghaem-100".
"The flight test of this launcher using the Rafe solid-fuel vehicle has been successfully completed," it said.
The Ghaem-100 rocket was manufactured by the aerospace organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and it is the country's first three-stage solid-fuel satellite launcher, the channel added.
Ghaem-100 "is capable of placing satellites weighing 80 kilograms (176 pounds) in an orbit 500 kilometres (just over 300 miles) from the surface of the earth," it said.
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The launch was delayed, however, due to a Flock of Seagulls flying overhead disrupting guidance systems
Global warming is the real threat to man kind.
That's weird. Are they touring over there or something? I mean, Iran so far away! :-/
You can thank God for those seagulls.
Remember this one ?
https://www.independentsentinel.com/lest-we-forget-clintons-chinagate-scandal-the-worst-in-us-history/
Don’t forget Obama and John F’ing Kerry!!
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