Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unveiled four recently built satellites, which will be put in orbit in the near future.
The four national satellites include Fajr (Dawn), Rasad (Observation), Zafar (Victory) and Amirkabir I, and a satellite carrier Kavoshgar 4 (Explorer 4).
Fajr is the nation’s first sensing satellite to have the ability to change from the elliptical orbit of 300km-450km to a circular orbit of 450km, which increases the life expectancy of the satellite by a year and a half.
Rasad is the country’s first photography satellite. It carries remote measuring equipment, and the images taken will be used in meteorology and identifying sea borders.
Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi had previously unveiled two domestically manufactured fixed ground stations and one mobile station for receiving remote sensing images with an accuracy of 1m.
Each station would be able to cover an area within a radius of 2,500km and to prepare images within an area estimating ten million cubic metres every 24 days, according to xinhuanet.com.
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