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TEHRAN
(ISNA)-Asia and Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) Director
General for Foreign and Legal Affairs Ahmad Talebzadeh said on Tuesday
the country is to implement 10 satellite projects with member states of
the organization.

"The organization has
defined 10 projects on designing, building and launching light
satellites, middle class satellites weighing 500-600 kg, research
satellites, remote-sensing and telecommunications satellites,"
Talebzadeh told ISNA

"The organization officially
started to work in early 2010, but Asian countries found necessity of
establishment of the organization in late 2008 when they prepared its
articles of association."

It mainly aims at entering into
the domains of technology and space studies which follows the same goals
pursued by the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Secretary General of the organization is elected every five years.

The organization's member states involve China, Iran, Pakistan, Mongolia, Thailand, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Peru.

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