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Russia to launch Iran spy satellites: report

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Moscow (AFP) Feb 02, 2005
Russia plans to launch later this year Iran's first two satellites which were built to gather intelligence from space, the business daily Kommersant reported Wednesday.
Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has signed a directive permitting the Russian defense ministry to launch the two satellites, named Mesbah and Sinah-1, from the Plesetsk launch site in the far north of the country, the daily said.

A copy of the government directive obtained by AFP confirmed that Russia planned to launch the two Iranian satellites as well as six others from countries including China, Britain, Norway, Germany, Japan and the European Space Agency.

The three-point directive, dated January 24, also stipulated that "foreign specialists" would be given access for the launches to the Plesetsk site, traditionally a closed military facility.

Russia has made no secret of its plans for commercial development of the Plesetsk space launch site as an alternative to its Baikonur site which is located in Kazakhstan but which Moscow has retained control over since the breakup of the Soviet Union under a long-term lease agreement.

Kommersant said the two Iranian satellites were due to be launched between April and June of this year and said they were designed for "distant examination of the earth's surface," a term the daily said was the common idiom for intelligence gathering.

A government spokesman contacted by AFP was unable to confirm the purpose of the Iranian satellites and the Fradkov directive described them only as built for "scientific purposes."

The satellites were to be launched aboard Russian-built Kosmos-3M rockets and would be placed in a low geo-stationary orbit, Kommersant said.

The news comes amid rising tension between the United States and Iran over the Islamic state's nuclear program and seemed likely to come under close scrutiny by Washington, which is nervous about Tehran's development of advanced technologies with dual military and civilian uses.

Iranian media reported Sunday that Tehran and Moscow had signed a 132-million-dollar contract for construction of a new Iranian telecommunications satellite, the Zohreh (Venus).

That satellite would be used to bolster Tehran's telecommunications infrastructure by handling data, audio and video signals, and is to be operational within two and a half years, the Iranian news agency IRNA said.
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http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=12323

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gone after iran? there's a solid plan. not really. the US needed a weak opponent for it's first roll through the middle east to make it look like the most formidable power in the world and that no one could touch their obscene amount of power. that's why they went to iraq first.

iran would have been political suicide (far worse than iraq) because the casualty level would have been a lot higher for the US and the war would still be going on.

 
Originally posted by: fornax
Who is out friend? Iran or Russia? And why shouldn't Iran have its own satellites?
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I think he ment Russia, but just think about what could Iran do with these Satellites.
 
Just business as usual, my friend. Just a few days ago the Russians launched a heavy satellite (Worldsat-2) for one of our communication companies.
 
Originally posted by: fornax
Just business as usual, my friend. Just a few days ago the Russians launched a heavy satellite (Worldsat-2) for one of our communication companies.
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Yep. If you have enough money you too can have Russia launch your own personal spy satellite.

 
Iran is supposedly going to launch a satellite of their own by the end of the year.

These satellites won't do Iran any good.

Yet another waste of money by the mullahs.
 
Russia is saving our Space Station..

Don't worry you will soon see how Dumbya bankrupted this whole nation morally and financially in record time 😀
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
Iran is supposedly going to launch a satellite of their own by the end of the year.

These satellites won't do Iran any good.

Yet another waste of money by the mullahs.
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Why not?

These satellites will be used to spy on Israel and attempt to prevent any pre-emptive attacks on their sovereign nation.
 
Originally posted by: dahunan
Originally posted by: Aimster
Iran is supposedly going to launch a satellite of their own by the end of the year.

These satellites won't do Iran any good.

Yet another waste of money by the mullahs.
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Why not?

These satellites will be used to spy on Israel and attempt to prevent any pre-emptive attacks on their sovereign nation.
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Are these spy satellites or communication satellities? Either way the govt. should not control the telecommunication business and it should be public.

If it is a spy satellite it can only help Iran a little. Iran has no air-air defense. The only damage they can do with their air force is to attack ground forces. Their defense for air are ground-air missiles and radar systems they aquired from russia/india/china. They make their own ground-air missiles, but let's see how good they are.

If Iran wants to protect itself from an attack on Israel, maybe it should buy some new jets from Russia. They either already have new equipment and do not want to tell anyone about it or they have a corrupt military that has a combined IQ of 5.

I'm not kidding around about the combined IQ of 5. When the Shah of Iran was in power, Iran had a very strong military. When the Shah fled so did all the Jews and the Generals and other leaders of the military.
Iran's military is run by a bunch of idiots.
 
heh, you think the USA is worried about a spy sattelite?

As soon as we dont want it there, zap, its gone. We own space more than we own the skies. But let them spend thier money and take thier pictures in the meantime.
 
Originally posted by: Train
heh, you think the USA is worried about a spy sattelite?

As soon as we dont want it there, zap, its gone. We own space more than we own the skies. But let them spend thier money and take thier pictures in the meantime.
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blah! blah! blah!
 
Since when do we knock out satellites with no repercussions

USA is not strong enough to take on the world

Funny how Iraq and Iran had nothing to do with 9/11 but we keep pushing thir buttons and they just might decide they want to help with 9/12
 
Aimster, I _believe_ Iran has several C-300 complexes. These are the best that Russia has allowed for export (their C-400 are for internal consumption only). Either Israel or the US will have hard time counteracting those (provided of course they're operated by trained personnel, something that history shows is not certain), and risk losing many aircraft and/or cruise missiles. Why do you think Israel raised such a ruckus when Syria wanted to get the same C-300 (and maybe they will)? Because they realized they will not have the air supremacy that they now enjoy. The war from 1973 showed that ground-based air defence is critical. Iran also has the best antiship missiles there are (outside of Russia), and that spells trouble for the US Navy in the Gulf. I truly hope Bush has some brains left and doesn't attack Iran.
 
The S-300V and it's modifications. I think Iran has what is called the "export" modifications, which are somewhat inferior to the C-300 used in Russia.
 
Originally posted by: dahunan
Since when do we knock out satellites with no repercussions

USA is not strong enough to take on the world

Funny how Iraq and Iran had nothing to do with 9/11 but we keep pushing thir buttons and they just might decide they want to help with 9/12
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Lol, that sattelite will "fail" in record time. I imagine all they will have to do is light the thing up with a high power laser and they can burn it out without anyone being able to prove anything.
 
Originally posted by: rahvin
Originally posted by: dahunan
Since when do we knock out satellites with no repercussions

USA is not strong enough to take on the world

Funny how Iraq and Iran had nothing to do with 9/11 but we keep pushing thir buttons and they just might decide they want to help with 9/12
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Lol, that sattelite will "fail" in record time. I imagine all they will have to do is light the thing up with a high power laser and they can burn it out without anyone being able to prove anything.
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Don't doubt that the satellites are maintained by Russia -- they will know what happened
 
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