{"id":22999,"date":"2025-07-25T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22999\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:09:07","slug":"russian-rocket-launches-iran-satellite-into-space-iranian-media-space-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22999\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian rocket launches Iran satellite into space: Iranian media | Space News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The satellite was designed and manufactured by Iranian engineers, according to reports.<\/p>\n

A Russian rocket has put an Iranian communications satellite into space, according to Iranian state media, in the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has caused consternation among some Western governments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Nahid-2 communications satellite was launched from Russia\u2019s Vostochny Cosmodrome using a Soyuz rocket,\u201d Iranian state television said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Weighing 110kg (240lb), the satellite was designed and manufactured by Iranian engineers, the broadcaster added.<\/p>\n

Western governments have long expressed concern that technological advances made in Iran\u2019s space programme could also be used to upgrade its ballistic missile arsenal.<\/p>\n

Nuclear talks<\/p>\n

The launch was announced shortly before nuclear talks<\/a> between Iran and Britain, France and Germany began in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

The meeting, which began on Friday morning, is the first since Israel\u2019s mid-June attacks on Iran, which led to a 12-day conflict and the intervention on Israel\u2019s behalf of the United States, which attacked Iranian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n

In December, Iran announced it had put its heaviest payload to date into space, saying it used a domestically manufactured satellite carrier.<\/p>\n

In September, Iran said it had put the Chamran-1 research satellite into orbit using the Ghaem-100 carrier, which is produced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\u2019 aerospace division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The satellite was designed and manufactured by Iranian engineers, according to reports. A Russian rocket has put an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,3456,5897,1259,44,6639,66,306],"class_list":["post-22999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-europe","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}