Iran Tests Space Tug As Rocket Upper Stage

Iranian Simorgh satellite carrier
Credit: Zuma/Alamy
Iran’s space agency has for the first time launched the Simorgh rocket equipped with a space tug as an upper stage. The launch vehicle lifted off Dec. 6 from the primary Iranian spaceport, Imam Khomeini Space Launch Terminal in Semnan Province in the north of the country. The rocket placed the...

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