Tehran: Amid growing connections between Moscow and Tehran, Russia launched 55 satellites into orbit on Tuesday, including two privately produced in Iran.
The satellites were launched by a Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far East of Russia at 02:18 Moscow time (2318 GMT on Monday), according to Russia’s Roscosmos space agency.
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Roscosmos reported that in addition to the two Iranian spacecraft, 51 Russian satellites, one Russian-Chinese gadget, and one Russian-Zimbabwean satellite were launched into orbit.
It claimed to be a “record number of Russian satellites simultaneously put into orbit.”
The two Iranian imaging and communications satellites, Koswar and Hodhod, were created and constructed by Iran’s Omid Faza Company to support communications and environmental monitoring in isolated locations.
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Iran’s privately created satellites were launched for the first time, according to Tehran.
Concerns have been raised in the West by the two nations’ increased political, economic, and military relations amid the Middle East conflict and Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.