Iran Launches Rocket to Commemorate New Space Center
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Iran fired a research rocket into space Monday to mark the opening of its space center, a move that was immediately condemned by the United States.
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Rising space power China provided a rare peek into its top-secret launch center Wednesday, capitalizing on its recent success in orbit to promote the military-funded project as a lure for foreign investment and a key to growing prosperity.
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Iran on Sunday said a probe it sent into space on the back of rocket whose launch caused international concern was sending data back to earth from an altitude of up to 250 kilometres (155 miles).
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Iran's announcement that it launched a research rocket has called new attention to a space program that Tehran says is peaceful but which some fear aims to produce long-range ballistic missiles that could reach Europe or the United States.
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Iran said it would test a rocket launcher on Monday that was designed to send the Islamic Republic's first homemade research satellite into orbit by March 2009, state media reported.
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Iran has test-fired an improved version of the Shahab-3 ballistic missile, the county&#39;s defence minister has said. The weapon, which Iran says has an increased range of 2,000 km (1,250 miles), was tested in front of observers, Ali Shamkhani said.
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Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani announced on Wednesday that Iran has successfully test-fired the latest prototype of Shahab-3 missile, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Iran said Thursday it would launch its first satellite into space by May 2005, state television reported.
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Iran said Saturday it successfully tested a ``strategic missile&#39;&#39; and delivered it to its armed forces, state-run radio reported.
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VIENNA, Austria -- Iran's new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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VIENNA, Feb. 13 -- Iran's new-generation advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads, diplomats said Wednesday.
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Russia launched a new-generation space booster rocket on Monday in a move that could eventually help send civilian cargoes into space, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday an Iranian-made rocket was believed to have been used in an attack that killed one person on the headquarters of the American military in Iraq this week.
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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan  - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft   was set to blast off on Monday carrying a woman who will   accomplish a trio of space firsts: the first female tourist,   first female Muslim, and first Iranian in orbit.
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An Iranian rocket launched over the weekend was of suborbital range and carried a research package, an Iranian space official said. Iran has not said what kind of research it was conducting with the rocket launch, but it billed it as a "space rocket," suggesting it was connected to what Tehran has said is a project to eventually launch satellites into orbit.
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Iran says it has successfully fired its first rocket into space, though no details its type or range are known.
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Iran said it would test a rocket  launcher on Monday that was designed to send the Islamic  Republic's first homemade research satellite into orbit by  March 2009, state media reported.