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Omīd

Iranian satellite
Written by
Erik Gregersen
Erik Gregersen is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica, specializing in the physical sciences and technology. Before joining Britannica in 2007, he worked at the University of Chicago Press on the...
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Omīd, first satellite orbited by Iran. Omīd (Farsi for “hope”) was launched on February 2, 2009, by a Safīr rocket from a site near Semnan. Omīd was a cube 40 cm (16 inches) on a side and had a mass of 27 kg (60 pounds). Its orbit had a perigee of 245 km (152 miles) and an apogee of 378 km (235 miles). It carried a GPS receiver and a radio transmitter. The satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere on April 25, 2009.

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