Iran Military Forum

YMJ, Please tell me why you are so optimistic.  Facts are stubborn things, and the fact is that Iran's development of the Nazeats, Zelzal, Fateh-110A and then Sajjil follow a pattern very similar to those seen in other countries, including France, China and India.

Those missiles were all finished prior to 2003, they were unveiled afterwards however to keep Iran's enemies off balance. What Iran is revealing today is works finished 10 years ago.

I think the8thmarch explained why very well.

Pasdar,

What I remember is that Fajr will be launched either by the end of current Hejri year or the beginning of the next. Tolou inshallah will be launched during the next year.

M-ATF jan. Your source is not the same as the article you posted.

Iran to launch home-made satellite in 3 months

ISNA - Tehran

TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said Wednesday Fajr (Dawn) satellite would be sent into space by the next three months.

Also regarding the return of the second Iranian flotilla from the Mediterranean Sea, he said, "The mission was conducted in high seas and everything was done well. This activity would continue."

Iran has always resisted against what enemies have tried to impose, he told reporters on the sidelines of the cabinet meeting.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has always declared that it defends itself against any threats, he said adding the Islamic Republic of Iran has never sought war, but it would always support its positions.

Fajr is a measurement and imaging satellite that will examine subsystems used in previous satellites. The manufacturing work of the satellite is still underway and nearly complete. The national Fajr satellite will be placed in elliptical orbit of 400 km in radius and will remain in space for a year and a half.

On November 12, 2011, Vahidi said that Fajr would blast into space with the thrusting power of "Safir-e-Fajr" satellite carrier.

Iran launched its first domestically-developed satellite, Omid (Hope), in 2009, an effort that made the Islamic Republic the ninth nation with the capability to launch satellites.

Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Outer Space, which was established in 1959.

Source
http://isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1954993&Lang=E

Well, we are talking about a major announcement to take place just a few days after. Surely Iran's weather must have been known in advance especially as crucial as this aspect is to launch of this class of rockets. Sorry Pasdar, but things don't add up. This sort of informing the public is not constructive. Just for another bad example, the public preview of IR.AN-140N was also announced to be done within the ten day Fajr celebrations. Have you seen it? Iran is very much under the microscope everyday in the world, such sub-standard publicity do not work for Iran and Iranians expecially at very crucial times like today.

Catsoo

The weather influences travel on Earth such as in the air transportation, while space travel is mostly tributary of the space weather. And yes, as this year is nearing the peak of solar activity, Iran Space Authorities did know in advance and therefore postponed wisely the Bahman 22 launch of the Fajr satellite (this is Sangeshkan_Cave assumption of course).

This is illustrated by non-stop waves of solar storms, CME and auroral activities for months as confirmed by space weather reports.

Daily spaceweather report website
http://spaceweather.com/ 

For the last few months only, the Russian Federation Space Agency failed in more than six launch missions, as China just lost last November 9, her first ever Mars probe, due to local influence of heavy charged particles from space. 

Conclusion: don't blame people, blame the sky!

Related article

New system to help satellites dodge devastating sun storms



Scientists have developed a system that helps them protect navigation and communication satellites by forecasting potentially devastating solar storms.

A European research team led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), have found a way to forecast changes in radiation levels by using data from a relatively distant NASA satellite and ground-based measurements.
 
The new system will make it possible for scientists to alert satellite operators when there is an increase in dangerous particles.
 
The operators can then move the satellites out of the radiation flow way or fold sensitive wings away.
 
"For the first time, we can now forecast radiation levels for a whole range of different orbits, from geo-stationary to medium earth orbit where there is a tremendous growth in the number of satellites," lead researcher Richard Horne told Reuters.
 
Massive bursts of solar energy can damage satellites by veering them into the paths of other crafts or by scrambling their communications.
 
Solar flares are caused by the sudden release of magnetic energy stored in the Sun's atmosphere, which then releases the charged particles into space in an event called a coronal mass ejection (CME).
 
After being quiet between 2005 and 2010, the Sun became active in 2011, spouting off numerous powerful flares and CMEs.
 
Most experts expect such outbursts to continue over the next few years. Solar activity waxes and wanes on an 11-year cycle.
 
The new development is of high importance as scientists think the current cycle, which is known as solar cycle 24, is set to begin a peak of stormy activity in 2012-13.
 
Source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/229973.html