{"id":273837,"date":"2023-09-28T05:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273837"},"modified":"2023-09-29T06:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T06:48:59","slug":"irgc-to-use-nour-3-satellite-for-military-intelligence-purposes-chief-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273837","title":{"rendered":"IRGC to use Nour-3 satellite for military intelligence purposes: Chief commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Sept 28, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_273791\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Iran-launches-Noor-3-into-orbit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273791\" class=\"wp-image-273791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Iran-launches-Noor-3-into-orbit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-273791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noor 3 launch. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the elite force will use the newly-launched Nour-3 imaging satellite for military intelligence purposes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe use the collection of what we receive (from the satellite) and [the information] it gathers from the Earth to meet the IRGC\u2019s intelligence demands,\u201d said Major General Hossein Salami on Wednesday as he was addressing a gathering of IRGC officers and veterans in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came hours after the IRGC placed Nour-3, also known as Najm, into orbit using its home-grown Qased satellite carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s telecoms ministry said the satellite, which will be used for measurement and reconnaissance missions, had been successfully placed into an orbit of 450 kilometers from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Information released by the IRGC said the satellite had traveled with a speed of 7.6 kilometers per second allowing it to be\u00a0placed into orbit some 500 seconds after its launch.<\/p>\n<p>Elaborating on the specifications of the Nour-3, Salami said the satellite is seven kilograms heavier than its previous version Nour-2 and features imaging equipment that are more precise and produce pictures with better quality.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of IRGC\u2019s Aerospace Division Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh said after the launch that the force plans two more satellite launches until the end of the current Iranian calendar year which will be late March.<\/p>\n<p>Hajizadeh said the launches will enable Iran to have a &#8220;constellation of satellites&#8221; in the space in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC had launched Nour-1 into a 425-km orbit on April 22, 2020 before it placed Nour-2 into an orbit of 500 kilometers from earth on February 27, 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/09\/27\/711635\/Iran-satellite-launch-Nour-3-IRGC-commander\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is no surprise, given that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps launched the satellite. However, the fact that Iran now acknowledges this suggests a growing confidence in its abilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"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-273837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273837","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=273837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273842,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273837\/revisions\/273842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}