Iran has begun developing the Sarir rocket carrier, which will allow it to launch satellites into geostationary orbit, said Head of the Iranian Space Agency, Hassan Salariyeh, Report informs referring to ISNA.
Last week, Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Eisa Zarepour announced that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite unit of the Iranian armed forces) successfully launched the third military satellite, Noor 3, into Earth orbit.
Later it became known that Iran plans to launch two more satellites into orbit by the end of March 2024.
“In the field of launch vehicles, we have begun the first step to reach an altitude of 36,000 kilometers (geostationary orbit). The Ministry of Defense has signed a contract to create an experimental model of the Sarir launch vehicle for suborbital and orbital flights, and the process of its construction has begun,” said Salariyeh.