{"id":273789,"date":"2023-09-27T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273789"},"modified":"2023-09-28T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T06:02:44","slug":"iran-successfully-launches-nour-3-satellite-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273789","title":{"rendered":"Iran successfully launches Nour-3 satellite into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Sept 27, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force successfully launched the homegrown imaging\u00a0satellite Nour-3 into\u00a0orbit on Wednesday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nour-3 (Light-3)\u00a0was launched by satellite carrier Qased (Messenger) and was placed into an orbit 450 kilometers (280 miles)\u00a0above the Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the efforts of IRGC Aerospace Force specialists, a few moments ago, the Nour-3 imaging satellite was successfully placed into a 450 km orbit of the earth with the Iranian Qased satellite carrier,\u201d Minister of Communications and Information Technology Issa Zarepour said via X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate all [Iranian] people, those active in the country\u2019s space industry, and the IRGC\u2019s space experts for this success. God willing, this year will be a fruitful year for the country\u2019s space industry,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani\u00a0announced that the country would launch at least two domestically-made\u00a0satellites into orbit this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are involved in the development and launch of satellites. Under our plan, we will have 2 to 3 satellite launches this year, something we hope to be successful,\u201d Ashtiani\u00a0said on August 22.<\/p>\n<p>Despite sanctions imposed by Western countries in recent years, Iran has managed to take giant strides in the civilian space program.<\/p>\n<p>It is among the world\u2019s top 10 countries capable of developing and launching satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March last year, the IRGC Aerospace Force launched Nour-2 into orbit using the Qased satellite carrier, two years after it placed Nour-1 into orbit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/09\/27\/711605\/Iran-launches-Noor-3-satellite-into-orbit\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several failed attempts, Iran\u2019s successful launch of a satellite into orbit will worry the U.S. It means that Iran could soon be capable of producing longer-range ballistic missiles, possibly putting North America within range    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":273791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273793,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273789\/revisions\/273793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/273791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}