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Ahmadinejad Says Iran Building Three-stage Rocket

Ahmadinejad Says Iran Building Three-stage Rocket
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Πεμ, 5 Αυγούστου 2010 - 18:34
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is working on a three-stage rocket to carry a satellite 1,000 kilometers into space, Fars news agency reported Thursday.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran is working on a three- stage rocket to carry a satellite 1,000 kilometers into space, Fars news agency reported Thursday.

"The country's scientists are working on a three-stage rocket that will take us to 1,000 kilometers," Ahmadinejad, quoted by Fars , told a local television in the western city of Hamedan .

He said the rocket's engines would have a thrust of between 120 and 140 metric tons, four times greater than the rocket thrust used to launch Iran 's first satellite into space in February 2009.

"Last time, we sent a satellite to 250 kilometers ... Next year it will be sent to 700 kilometers, and the year after that to 1,000 kilometers," he said.

The launch of Iran 's first satellite, named Omid, stirred a wave of criticism from Western countries which fear the potential uses of the Islamic republic's ambitious space program.

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