Languages: English. Iran announced on Friday that it successfully launched a satellite into orbit using its Simorgh rocket, a development Western officials argue advances Tehran's ballistic ...

Officially, the Simorgh rocket is meant to place Iranian satellites in orbits around the Earth. It has a length of about eighty-nine feet and can place a 551-pound satellite into an orbit as high ...

That's the site of Iran's civilian space program, which has suffered a series of failed Simorgh launches in the past.The Simorgh carried what Iran described as an “orbital propulsion system ...