Roscosmos launched the Iranian satellite Pars-1 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome
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“Roscosmos” reported about the launch of 17 Russian and one Iranian satellite from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region. The spacecraft were successfully delivered to their target orbits and separated from the Fregat upper stage launched by the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle.
According to Roscosmos, the Iranian Earth remote sensing satellite Pars-1 was launched into a given orbit in the interests of the Iranian Space Agency. According to the Iranian agency IRNA, satellite weight – 134 kg. It is designed for functional imaging, measurement data development, and development and testing of technologies needed for operational research.
The group of Russian satellites consists of 17 Russian civilian Sputniks satellites, among them 16 spacecraft of the SITRO-AIS automatic identification system group for tracking sea vessels and a spacecraft of the Zorki-2M Earth remote sensing group.
On January 28, for the first time in its space history, Iran launched three satellites – Mehda, Keyhan-2, Hatef-1 – into Earth orbit at altitudes from 450 km to 1.1 thousand km. The satellites were launched from a platform at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Semnan province.
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