Iran says it has sent a research satellite into orbit with a rocket built by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. A Saturday report by the state-run IRNA news agency said that the Chamran-1 satellite has a weight of 60 kilograms, adding that it successfully reached a 550-kilometer orbit in space. It said testing space hardware and software is the main mission of the satellite. IRNA said land stations received signals from the satellite too. Though Iran has long planned to send satellites into orbit, this is the first launch under reformist President Masoud Pezezhkian after his hardline predecessor Ebrahim Raisi died in a May helicopter crash.
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