Issa Zarepour wrote on his social media account on Sunday that last night, Iran’s satellite monitoring stations received signals from the Sorayya satellite as well as telemetry data concerning the state of energy supply, automatic positioning, communication and control, and processing systems, which indicate that the satellite is in good condition.
As he announced the launch on Iranian social media platforms, Zarepour also said on Saturday that for the first time an Iranian satellite carrier placed an object into space at an orbit 750km above the Earth’s surface.
A new record was set, he noted, adding that the space launch was the tenth by the Islamic Republic of Iran under the administration of President Ebrahim Raisi.
The satellite, named Sorayya meaning Pleiades in Persian, was placed into orbit using domestically-made carrier Qaem 100. It can carry objects weighing up to 100kg, the minister said, adding that the Sorayya satellite weighed 50 kg.
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