Iran completes most advanced domestically-made satellite

Tehran, Sept 14, IRNA – Iranian ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Monday that the final tests of the country’s most advanced domestically-made satellite have been carried out. Azari Jahromi made the remarks speaking during a visit to an exhibition in the Iranian capital where the country's latest indigenized information technology achievements were put on display. He said that Pars-1 Satellite will be delivered to the Iranian Space Agency next week. From now on the experts of the Iranian Space Agency will focus on the construction of Nahid-2 Satellite which is a telecommunication satellite, the minister said. Pars-1 Satellite is capable of taking images in the space at night.