Tehran, Aug. 2 -- In a bid to boost its space and missile technology, Iran is now planning to launch the second model of its Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite using its indigenously developed Simorgh rocket after last week's liftoff aboard a Russian Soyuz vehicle, the head of Iran's Space Agency said on Saturday.
"The second Nahid-2 will be launched by the Simorgh rocket after final adjustments," Hassan Salarieh, head of the Iranian Space Agency, said. "We have the internal capacity to carry out the launch ourselves."
The current version of Nahid-2 was launched into orbit last week from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome as part of a multi-payload mission. Iran confirmed it was one of the satellites onboard after Russian media referred ...