Iran joined fewer than a dozen other countries capable of launching satellites into space on Feb. 3 with its first indigenously launched Omid-1, Hope in Farsi, research and telecoms satellite into orbit aboard a two-stage Safir, or Ambassador, booster from the Semnan launch site in the Great Salt Desert south of Tehran.
Jane's Intelligence Digest reported at the time: "Tehran now has established its status as having the most advanced space, missile and nuclear programs in the Muslim Middle East, confirming its technical superiority over its Arab rivals."
The successful launch "confirms that the Iranians have overcome the technological obstacles to launching a multi-stage missile, a process than can increase flight range considerably," Jane's concluded.
One of the two Mesbah variants produced in cooperation with the Italians was destroyed in a 2005 launch accident, when the satellite was first displayed.
The other is presumably the one the Iranians now plan to launch into space themselves.
The Iranians will likely use their 72-foot Safir-2 booster rocket to put the 132-pound Mesbah-2 into orbit.
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