TEHRAN – Iran will launch at least two satellites into space by the end of the current Iranian year, Minister of Information and Communications Technology Isa Zarepour said on Sunday. 

Zarepour said Nahid 1 and 2 satellites are being prepared for launch. Nahid 1 was designed and built for the first time in the country at the Institute of Satellite Systems of the Iran Space Research Institute. Nahid 2 satellite is also one of the satellites with telecommunication technology and capable of performing maneuvers and orbital corrections and will be an important step in the construction of low-altitude telecommunication systems.