Russia to Launch Kosar and Hodhod Satellites

Date: 29 July 2024 - 22:21

News ID: ۱۲۹۸۶۶

TEHRAN -- Two Iran-made ‘Kosar’ and ‘Hodhod’ satellites will be sent to the orbit from Russia on November 5, founder and managing director of an Iranian knowledge-based company active in space areas Hussein Shahrabi Farahani said on Monday.
“God willing, these two satellites will be launched from the Russian space base on November 5 this year,” he said.
The two satellites will be launched into the orbit of 500 km above the earth’s surface.
The Kosar is a sensing satellite with a resolution of 3.5 meters. The satellite weighs 30 kg and has a color image width of 15 km.
Images sent by the satellite are suitable for agricultural and mapping applications, Shahrabi Farahani said, the orbital life of this satellite is 3.5 years.
The Hodhod satellite is an Internet of Things (IOT) satellite designed and built based on the standard of cubic satellites in dimensions of three units (3U).
“The satellite can be used in agricultural, transportation and crisis management fields. Hodhod has an orbital life of 4 years and is placed in a similar orbit next to the Kosar satellite,” he added.
Last year, Iranian scientists built the Kosar sensing satellite used in agriculture, mapping and surveying and the Hodhod narrow band telecommunication satellite used in the fields of agriculture, transportation and crisis management.
“We seek to construct a satellite constellation that simultaneously performs the two tasks of remote sensing and narrowband communications,” Shahrabi Farahani told ANA in April.
Iran is standing among the top 10 countries leading the space industry and among the 7 states leading the bio-space.
Late in January, Iran launched three home-made satellites simultaneously into space.
Mahda, Keyhan-2 and Hatef-1 were three home-made satellites that Iran successfully put into orbit on the back of a single launcher dubbed Simorq (Phoenix).
The three satellites were launched from Imam Khomeini Space Launch Terminal in Semnan province in the Northeastern part of Iran with a minimum altitude of 450 kilometers and a maximum of 1,100 kilometers above the earth’s surface.
Iran sent its first bio-capsule containing living creatures into space in February 2010, using an Explorer (Kavoshgar) carrier.
The country launched its first satellite, called Omid (literally meaning hope), in 2009. Rasad (literally meaning observation) satellite was also sent into orbit in 2011.
In 2012, Iran successfully put its third domestically manufactured satellite, named Navid (promise), into orbit.