Iran Plans To Send Bigger Satellite Into Space

[Purveyor]

Source: Reuters

6 mins ago

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran plans to send a bigger satellite into space on a rocket with a range of up to 1,500 km (930 miles), President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, in comments that may spark further Western concern.

Iran launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time in February, a step that worried Western powers which fear the Islamic Republic is seeking to build a nuclear bomb and missile delivery systems.

Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, says its nuclear program is to generate electricity, and that the February 3 launch of the Omid satellite was for peaceful telecommunications and research purposes.

The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be used to launch warheads, although Iran says it has no plans to do so.

"A rocket with a range of 700-1,500 km is scheduled to take a bigger satellite (than Omid) into space," Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying in a speech to students.

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[ConcernedCanuk]

1. USA's "quest to land on the moon" was a sales game to the populace to support development of ICBMs

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They even employed Hollywood to make the launch more spectacular,

hence the movement of the launch pad to the cape.

There is NO way at the time that the USA taxpayers would have supported the extravagant amounts of money needed to develop ICBMs

So the powers that be employed Hollywood(actors, all mind ya) to "sell" the space program.

And the USA has been run by actors ever since.