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| Iran hails successful satellite launch |
| 2010-02-03 |
| From the Baron Munchhausen files. Iran hailed the successful launch of a home-built satellite on Wednesday amid Western concerns it is using its nuclear and space industries to develop atomic and ballistic weapons. The Kavoshgar 3 (Explorer) rocket was carrying an "experimental capsule", state-owned Al-Alam television reported. State television's website said it was carrying "live animals" -- a rat, turtles and worms, the first such experiment by Iran in space technology. "The capsule has the ability to send back empirical data," the website said. State television showed footage of the rocket being fired from a desert launchpad leaving behind a thick plume of smoke. Check out the "space rocket" pic at the link. It looks like a Grad rocket. Those mouth breathers go from success to success. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #8 ION NEWS KERALA > ITALY PM: NUCLEAR IRAN UNACCEPTABLE; + US DNI: AL QAEDA POISED FOR LARGE-SCALE TERROR ATTACK/STRIKE IN AMERICA BY JULY [2010]. ARTIC > DNI + US INTEL > biggest US Agencies' fear = threat to the USA is AL QAEDA changing its norms or methodisms to something that is wholly un-detectable or unknown in a timely manner. AL QAEDA is also effec engaging in steadily intensifying MALICIOUS CYBER-ACTIVITY [hacking] agz sophisticated US, Global IT Networks. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-03 21:43 |
| #7 Maybe someone should blast Nutjob into space. Now that would be more like it. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-02-03 20:38 |
| #6 if you can put advanced life (like a rat or worm) into space it's simplicity itself to put lower life forms like Ahmadinejad or a Mullah or two into the great frontier. Let them go claim the moon for |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-02-03 18:23 |
| #5 Perhaps they are interested in the effects of rats, turtles, and worms in free-fall to predict the USA 2010 elections. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-02-03 12:59 |
| #4 I'm concerned that Iran might be up to no good in space. |
| Posted by: Mike Hunt 2010-02-03 11:19 |
| #3 A rat , a turtle and a worm went to space , on return to Iran , wished they were back in space for a better atmosphere . |
| Posted by: Oscar 2010-02-03 08:53 |
| #2 I had forgotten all about that movie... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-02-03 08:32 |
| #1 More yuks: Iran said the Kavoshgar reached an altitude of 200 kilometres (125 miles) before falling back to earth. I think I saw that that movie. It starred Andy Griffith as a junk salvager. Used a new fangled fuel called Hydrazine where one drop blasted a car 100 feet high. The difference being Andy was intentionally making a comedy. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-02-03 08:28 |