{"id":54861,"date":"2023-09-30T15:37:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T15:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/iran-launches-homegrown-noor-iii-military-satellite-into-orbit"},"modified":"2023-09-30T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T15:58:31","slug":"iran-launches-homegrown-noor-iii-military-satellite-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/iran-launches-homegrown-noor-iii-military-satellite-into-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Iran Launches Homegrown Noor-III Military Satellite Into Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force has successfully put the Noor-III military satellite into orbit 450 kilometers (279.6 miles) above the Earth&#8217;s surface with the Qased carrier rocket, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Issa Zarepour stated on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks to the efforts of specialists of the IRGC Aerospace Force, a few minutes ago, the Noor-III satellite with Iranian carrier rocket Qased was successfully launched into orbit 450 kilometers above the Earth&#8217;s surface. I congratulate all employees of the country&#8217;s space industry and employees of the IRGC space agency on this success,&#8221; Zarepour was quoted as saying by an Iranian news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh announced that Iran planned to launch two more satellites into orbit by late March.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran launched its first homegrown military satellite Noor-I in April 2020, followed by the second one, Noor-II, in March 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force has successfully put the Noor-III military satellite into orbit 450 kilometers (279.6 miles) above the Earth&#8217;s surface with the Qased carrier rocket, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Issa Zarepour stated on Wednesday. &#8220;Thanks to the efforts of specialists of the IRGC Aerospace Force, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-54861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran Launches Homegrown Noor-III Military Satellite Into Orbit - 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