Above: ARI displayed full-scale mockup of Iran's manned space capsule
In a 17FEB15 ceremony to mark Space Technology Day in Tehran, Iran unveiled a mockup prototype of its first domestically manufactured space capsule intended at putting an Iranian astronaut into earth orbit.
The space capsule mockup, built to 1:1 scale, was put on display in an exhibition on achievements of Iran's latest space technologies.
According to Iranian aerospace officials, the spacecraft is planned for launch sometime during the next Iranian year, which starts on 21MAR15. [source: Tasnim News Agency]
Astronautics Research Institute (ARI) displayed full-scale mockup of manned space capsule
Astronaut mannequin fitted inside ARI displayed manned space capsule mockup
Also, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi announced the first 10-year development plant of Iran's space program’s has reached the end of its testing stage, with the second 10-year (development) plan commencing to implement more applied usages of space technology. [click HERE]
ARI displayed manned space capsule mockup flanked by what appear to be previously launched Kavoshgar return capsules.
Scale models of Kavoshgar ("Explorer") rockets, the eighth to right depicting Kavoshgar-e Pazhuhesh
Scale model of a Kavoshgar ("Explorer") rocket
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Majid Asgaripour at Mehr News Agency
Ismaic Republic News Agency
Presiudent.ir / Mashreghnews.ir
There is no point doing this other than a cover up for Nuclear warhead research. The Nuke also needs protection on re-entry. It doesn't make sense to spend Billions on a technology that has no use for Iran otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but that aspect of the reentry vehicle-related research has pretty much been accomplished through Iran's existing and successful IRBM development program already a while ago, some time around the early 2000s. Indeed early versions of Shahab-3Bs also had what it took to protect its warhead on re-entry, being full-blown ballistic missile going out of the atmosphere and back to its target zone, by definition.
DeleteThe space program nonetheless could in turn be used as a basis for intercontinental range ballistic missile research, commonly called ICBMs, there I agree. Iran like any country in the space club including the US, USSR and Israel, would probably want to use insight provided by its space vehicles to enlarge its knowledge on possible military application of the associated dual-use technologies, nothing surprising or secret here IMHO. Whether one likes it or hates on the other hand, falls within the spectrum of political discussions, not technical.
The treacherous Iranian regime might well be hiding a lot of things, there you'd be preaching a convert, and doesn't even take the care of hiding a lot of ugly deeds it performs daily, but probable military dimensions of its civilian space program are not part of it.
anonymousFebruary 18, 2015 at 3:28 AM
DeleteAnd which nuke would this be?,there is no evidence that irans civilian nuclear power program has any military aspect,or perhaps you were meaning this nuke
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The Nuke that will come in future after the normalization and whenever necessary! You don't think that they will sit on their asses to design a delivery method after they have the Nuke (if they already don't have one and loose precious time, do you? You can deny whatever you want but if a nation can and a nation want and the nation needs, then the nation will master the 1950's technology to the end . It is inevitable.
DeleteI don't get it. An oil-dependent country with a "catastrophic" oil industry (thanks to sanctions and low oil prices) is building manned space capsules, 1,300+ ton missile-launching submarine and promising at least one new aviation achievement every month for the coming years?
ReplyDeleteyou can not get it, because you can not interprete the news correct
Deleteneither low oil price is a disaster an nor presenting some mockups is a great achievment
The Tehran Planetarium
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7K4PQAQBU8
More propaganda with mockups without backups.
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