Iran has prepared six satellites to be launched into space. while one more satellite is in the process of being assembled. the country’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology. Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi. has announced. Trend reports citing Sputnik.
`We are currently ready to send six satellites into orbit. The assembly speed has increased.` Jahromi wrote on Twitter.
Last year. at the end of October. Jahromi said that Iran was planning to have new satellites launched into Earth`s orbit by the end of the current Iranian calendar year. which falls on March 19.
In August 2019. Western media reported an explosion of an Iranian carrier rocket during a launch from the Imam Khomeini space centre. The Iranian authorities denied the reports.