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[Immortals]

Russia is sending them up, they all have different specs and customers and purposes

Yes, it’s Ride sharing. Everyone pays for their respective load to space and it reduces the cost for all. That is why launching satellites and space access has become so affordable (relatively speaking) in past decade.

The beauty of Russia being cut off from Western economy is that Iranian companies are now allowed to join the Russia rideshare program. Historically, Russia has succumbed to western political pressures and refused or delayed satellite launches in the past. But now with a loss of [western] clientele due to Ukraine war they are much more open to Iranian government and private sector satellites being launched on their rockets.

 

[Hack-Hook]

I suppose these are a precursor to the Solemani Constellation (Iranian GPS and/or Starlink).

think its test bed for a primitive starlink like system to provide our armed force the much needed satellite communication capabilities
for gps we need higher altitude and bigger and more powerful sats

 

[jauk]

think its test bed for a primitive starlink like system to provide our armed force the much needed satellite communication capabilities
for gps we need higher altitude and bigger and more powerful sats

I originally thought something along those lines too but the tweet does not explicitly mention these are Iranian.

 

[Persian Gulf]

I originally thought something along those lines too but the tweet does not explicitly mention these are Iranian.

2 of them are Iranian, the rest are unrelated and from various other countries

 

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This engine is approaching 15 years old at this point.

I don’t understand the obsession with the status of Moghdam’s engine. It is old tech by now and just because we haven’t seen missiles using it doesn’t mean it was never completed. Unless Moghaddam had zero back up of the plans outside of the base forcing the Shahrud team to start from the beginning, which seems unlikely, but with Iran you never know.

Cost is a big factor, it’s possible it took a decade for costs per engine to come down to make it feasible to make a conventional missile out of it. We also had Rouhani era where SLV development was basically halted and IRGC-SF did not exist yet (costly mistake).

Also keep in mind this wasn’t his most powerful missile/SLV, he had plans for a missile that would take large payloads to GEO and that was supposed to be next project. That project was then handed over to Shahrud team after his death. That’s the project we should be focused on, not a 15 year old engine.

 

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Hodhod and Kowsar. Both product of private knowledge based company Omid-e-Faza (Hope in space). One hi resolution cam for agriculture and the other for IOT. Image of one:

 

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Hodhod and Kowsar. Both product of private knowledge based company Omid-e-Faza (Hope in space). One hi resolution cam for agriculture and the other for IOT. Image of one:

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high res is a stretch, 3.5m resolution

but maybe for agriculture that's considered high res

we should see many more space launches in the next 4 months