Entro il 2018 tre satelliti iraniani in orbita.

Secondo quanto è stato annunciato dak Ministro iraniano per le Comunucazioni  l'Iran metterà in orbita tre satelliti entro il 2018.

I lanci avverranno in particolare sevondo il calendario iraniano a partire da Marzo 2017 ed entro marzo 2018.

Si conosce al momento soltanto il nome del primo satellite. 

Si tratta di Dousti (Farsi for Friendship), anche conosciuto come SharifSat, un microsatellite di 5'0 Kg dedicato ad applicazioni di telerilevamento e realizzato dal Iran Space Agency’s Remote Sensing Laboratory.

 

In what appears to be another schedule slippage in the Iranian space programme, the Iranian Minister for Communication and Information Technology, Mahmoud Vaezi, announced that three domestically built satellites will be launched by 2018.
The first satellite scheduled for launch is the
“One of the satellites – Sharif Sat or Dousti will be put into orbit by the end of the year, while two more satellites will be launched by the end of the next Iranian calendar year,” said Minister Vaezi to Iranian journalists. Vaezi was referring to the end of the Iranian calendar year that takes place on 20 March 2017.
Iranian officials have been announcing the imminent launch of Dousti throughout most of 2016, indicating that there might be problems with readying an Iranian Simorgh space launch vehicle (SLV), or securing a place on a manifest of a Russian or Chinese SLV. In either case, Doosti has been ready for launch for many months now.
The delay in Doosti’s launch also suggests that ultimately Iranian officials may have to choose between prioritising a domestic satellite manufacturing capability or a domestic space launch capability as resources for its space programme become tighter.
Vaezi made no mention of the names and functions of the other two satellites to be launched by 20 March 2018, the end of the 2018 calendar year in Iran.