February 2, 2020  

Iran is preparing to launch a new scientific observation satellite in the "coming days," the head of the country's national space agency said Saturday.

Manufacture of the Zafar (Victory in Farsi) satellite "began three years ago with the participation of 80 Iranian scientists," said Morteza Berari, without giving a date for the launch. 

The 113-kilogram satellite will be launched by a Simorgh rocket 530 kilometers above the Earth, where it will make 15 orbits daily, said Berari.

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