Iran says it will launch satellite without outside help
In 2 years.
The Associated Press
WFLS News
Date published: 11/20/2009
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - It seems no one is willing to help, so Iran
says it will send a communications satellite into orbit on its own.
Tehran says the satellite will help data communication, but
Israeli media have claimed that it's a spy satellite.
Iran announced a couple weeks ago that Italy would launch the
satellite, after waiting for years for Russia to do it. But the
Italian space company that it had supposedly lined up denied the
report.
In February, Iran launched a satellite using an Iranian rocket
the first time, while Russia launched the country's first satellite
in 2005.
Iran's telecommunications minister says the decision to launch
this latest satellite is a show of Iran's progress in space
technology.
World powers have expressed concern that the same rocket
technology used to launch satellites could also be used for
military purposes.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Date published: 11/20/2009
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