Publish dateSaturday 7 September 2013 - 17:59
Story Code : 73993
Official: Iran to Send Second Living Creature into Space in October
Head of Iran's Space Agency (ISA) Hamid Fazeli Saturday announced that his agency plans to send the second living creature into the space in a couple of months on the back of a liquid-engine explorer rocket. 

"In a new initiative, Iran's Aviation Agency will send another living creature to the space by mid-October through a liquid-fuel explorer which has less acceleration and is equipped with control and monitor system. It leads to a return of the living creature with high precession," Fazeli said.

Fazeli also expressed the hope that the living creature would be received again in the earth safe and sound.

Fazeli highlighted that Iran successfully sent the first living animal into space by a solid-fuel capsule in the last Iranian calendar year (ended March 20, 2013).

Sending liquid-fuel capsule into space has many advantages including the high precision and better navigational and controlling systems, he added.

Late in January, the Iranian Defense Ministry's Aerospace Industries Organization announced that it has sent a monkey into the space on the back of Pishgam (Pioneer) explorer rocket, and that it has brought back and recovered the living cargo.

Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations' Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), which was set up in 1959.
Source : Afghan Voice Agency (AVA), International Service
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