{"id":372456,"date":"2025-12-26T06:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372456\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T06:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T06:36:23","slug":"paya-tolou-3-satellite-marks-irans-leap-into-a-new-generation-of-earth-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/372456\/","title":{"rendered":"Paya (Tolou-3) Satellite Marks Iran\u2019s Leap Into A New Generation Of Earth Imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a mass of about 150 kilograms and dimensions of roughly 1.2 \u00d7 1 \u00d7 1 meters, Paya is classified as a mini-satellite and is the heaviest indigenous satellite Iran has so far prepared for launch.<\/p>\n<p>It carries two imaging sensors capable of providing five-meter resolution in black-and-white and 10-meter resolution in color.<\/p>\n<p>By using artificial intelligence-based image processing algorithms, the effective accuracy of the images can be enhanced to around three meters.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in Iran\u2019s satellite program, mirror-based imaging technology has been employed, making Paya the most advanced domestically developed imaging satellite to date.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with previous Iranian satellites, which were mainly nano- and micro-satellites, Paya offers major improvements in image quality, imaging duration, coverage area, and data transmission rates.<\/p>\n<p>Equipped with a space propulsion subsystem similar to that used in the Chamran-1 satellite, Paya can perform orbital maneuvers and corrections, ensuring an operational lifespan of at least three years.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 percent of its components and subsystems are locally produced, largely with contributions from Iran\u2019s knowledge-based and private sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a mass of about 150 kilograms and dimensions of roughly 1.2 \u00d7 1 \u00d7 1 meters, Paya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-372456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}