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Iran launches satellite into space
2019-01-16
[PRESSTV] Iran has launched a domestically-built satellite into space with an aim to collect environmental information to boost the country's forecasting system; however, technical problems that occurred during the final stage of the launch prevented the spacecraft from reaching orbit.

Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi tweeted on Tuesday that the first and second stages of the space mission had been performed successfully, but that the Simorgh satellite carrier had failed to accelerate to orbital speed in the third stage.
So not really a success, then. Still, they did manage to get it up into the air, so that’s something.
"The Payam (Message) satellite was successfully launched this morning aboard the satellite carrier. But the satellite unfortunately failed to be placed in orbit in the final stage," said the minister.

Azari Jahromi, however, stressed that Iran was preparing to launch another Low-Earth Orbit satellite, named Doosti (friendship).
And when that day eventually comes, we’ll be watching.

Posted by:Fred

#7  Maths are hard
Posted by: newc   2019-01-16 22:46  

#6  You’re not fooling anybody with all these anonymizer nyms, Zenobia F. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-01-16 14:26  

#5  Hah!

Confessed the best tester for Estes,
Possessed of asbestos-dressed testes,
"All the dolls break my falls
And fry eggs on my balls.
Yes, I'm blessed... but jeez, give it a rest, please!"

Though to be honest, he was only about average size. Six inches, tops. Funny little fella.
Posted by: Flemp Lumumba1072   2019-01-16 14:16  

#4  It fell to earth in a blaze?
Posted by: Fat Bob Glaise8594   2019-01-16 13:42  

#3  I shot a missile into the air,
Achieving orbit if we dare.
It fell to earth I know not where,
due to an unidentified failure in the 3rd stage boost phase.
(hey, you want rhymage, go find ZenFlo!)

-- Poemifying 'n Rocketry B. Hard
Posted by: SteveS   2019-01-16 13:27  

#2  It isn't actually all that hard to get something into space. Just need a rocket roughly the size of a telephone pole to go straight up and you will get to a height that is considered "space".

Keeping it up there is the real technical challenge. It has to be going fast enough to balance the pull of earth's gravity while not going so fast it hurls out into the solar system. This requires multiple stages that needs pretty serious engineering and physics. You know, Rocket Science.

Most countries still don't have it and it is hard to develop.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-01-16 12:03  

#1  or the fully successful launch of a 2 stage mid-range ICBM...
Posted by: Chinesh Glamp1293   2019-01-16 08:53  

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