Tehran, Sept 25: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says
Iran plans to send a satellite carrier rocket into space soon.
Iranian state TV quotes Ahmadinejad as saying the
Persian nation will soon "launch a rocket, which has 16
engines and will take a satellite some 430 miles" into space.
Ahmadinejad spoke to a group of Iranian expatriates in
New York, where he is attending the UN General Assembly.
Iran is working on a space program. Earlier this month,
it announced that a joint Iranian-Chinese research satellite
was sent into orbit by a Chinese-made rocket.
Last month, Iran tested a rocket it hopes will one day
carry an all-Iranian research satellite. In 2005, Tehran sent
its first commercial satellite into space on a Russian rocket.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 00:00