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2007-02-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by John Frum 2007-02-25 07:39|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Looks like it is just a sub-orbital sounding rocket

Iran has launched a sub-orbital rocket for scientific research not a missile capable of reaching space as earlier reported, an aerospace official told an Iranian news agency on Sunday.

Ali Akbar Golrou, the executive deputy of Iran's aerospace research center, told Fars News Agency the rocket would not stay in orbit but could rise to about 150 km (94 miles) into atmosphere before falling to earth by parachute.

State television's Web site had earlier quoted the head of the aerospace research center, Mohsen Bahrami, as saying Iran had fired a missile able to reach space.

Iranian advances in building missiles capable of reaching space are watched closely by the West because the same technology could be used to build intercontinental ballistic missiles.

"What was announced by the head of the research center was the news of launching this sounding rocket," Golrou said, denying the earlier report.

So-called "sounding rockets" are often used to probe atmospheric conditions between 45 km and 160 km (28 miles and 100 miles) above the earth, between the maximum altitude of weather balloons and the minimum altitude of orbiting satellites.

Posted by John Frum 2007-02-25 12:58|| 2007-02-25 12:58|| Front Page Top

Posted by DMFD 2007-02-25 14:38|| 2007-02-25 14:38|| Front Page Top

#3 So the MMs have been buying Estes rocket motors, reverse engineering them and scaling up?

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-02-25 15:08|| 2007-02-25 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 We are special!

Posted by Angenter Crolugum3645 2007-02-25 15:11|| 2007-02-25 15:11|| Front Page Top

#5 LMAO!

Posted by gorb 2007-02-25 19:26|| 2007-02-25 19:26|| Front Page Top

#6 D***ng it, I miss my SATURN V rocket kit.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-25 21:45|| 2007-02-25 21:45|| Front Page Top

#7 From Gateway Pundit (Link with pics)

Woops!... Those Aren't Real Iranian Rocket Pictures, Either!
How sad!

Not only were the Iranian space rocket stories not real...
But, the Iranian space rocket pictures weren't real, either!

This article today from Iranian Bazteb News explains that the rockets launched yesterday were not really space rockets.

The blessed rocket was actually a below-orbit satellite which goes above balloons but below satellites.

Now, we find out the pictures of the rockets in the Iranian news article were not really Iranian, either!

Posted by SwissTex 2007-02-25 23:02|| 2007-02-25 23:02|| Front Page Top

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