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jauk said:
IRGC, civilian? Well, what about ISA? I’m confused.
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It's simple. IRGC ASF tested new SLV and and took a small civilian satellite as its payload.
 
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This is a huge step for the IRGC-ASF space program and the third Iranian SLV to successfully place a satellite into LEO (after Safir and Qased).

This comes 13 months after the first test launch of the Qaem-100 SLV in November 2022. Ideally a few more similar launches would be carried out to stabilise the reliability of the platform. Also interesting that reports claim Qaem-100 can place a 100kg satellite into LEO, seems feasible for a 400-500km LEO.

More importantly, we expect to see the upgraded Qaem-105 SLV later this Iranian year (at least a sub-orbital test launch), with an estimated payload capacity of 200kg to LEO.

The IRGC Qaem family of SLVs are built around modularity, so now we can say all the necessary sub-systems (most importantly, Raafe and new Salman engines) are proven to work, which bodes well for the success of the future iterations (Qaem-105, Qaem-110 and Qaem-120).

These are fully solid-fuel, mobile, light and advanced SLVs that some speculate could be easily converted to ICBM class missiles (e.g. in the Midgetman class).

Overview of Iranian SLVs:
- Safir (4/6 successful orbital launches, retired)
- Simorgh (0/3 successful orbital launches, in development)
- Zoljanah (2/2 succesful sub-orbital test launches, in development)
- Qased (3/3 successful orbital launches, active)
- Qaem-100 (1/2 successful orbital launches, active)
 
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wait until he sees the Qaem-105 😀
 

Iran successfully inserts Soraya satellite into 750km LEO using Qaem-100 SLV

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran on Saturday sent its homegrown ‘Soraya’ satellite into a low Earth orbit (LEO) with the ‘Qaem-100’ satellite carrier. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force successfully put Soraya into an orbit 750 kilometers above Earth in 11 minutes. The research...
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How much range would a Qaem-100/105 based ICBM have?
 
Persian Gulf said:
This is a huge step for the IRGC-ASF space program and the third Iranian SLV to successfully place a satellite into LEO (after Safir and Qased).
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Lol no it’s not. They merely reduced the payload and sent to higher apogee. 50kg satellite is capability we demonstrated back in 2009.The fact of matter is we are still launching microsatellites under 100kg.

Sending 50kg is not impressive to 700+KM. If it was 250kg or 500kg then that’s a different story and long long overdue for this underwhelming space program.

We are merely recycling past capability and putting lipstick on it. Wether IRGC-ASF or ISA makes no difference as all SLVs come from Iranian military industrial complex.

I will not give credit to either group as this underperformance is not worth celebrating as I stated many times over the years.
 
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In 9 years since 2015, ISA has placed 0 satellites into orbit

Since the IRGC launched its first SLV less than 4 years ago in April 2020, it has placed 4 satellites into orbit
 
High quality footage of successful Qaem-100 launch

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Immortals said:
Lol no it’s not. They merely reduced the payload and sent to higher apogee. 50kg satellite is capability we demonstrated back in 2009.The fact of matter is we are still launching microsatellites under 100kg.

Sending 50kg is not impressive to 700+KM. If it was 250kg or 500kg then that’s a different story and long long overdue for this underwhelming space program.

We are merely recycling past capability and putting lipstick on it. Wether IRGC-ASF or ISA makes no difference as all SLVs come from Iranian military industrial complex.

I will not give credit to either group as this underperformance is not worth celebrating as I stated many times over the years.
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2009: 50 kg to 120 km
A dumb 50 kg load with no advanced capabilities

2014: advanced 50 kg to 700 km
 
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