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Iran successfully fires satellite rocket
Updated at: 1203 PST, Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Iran successfully fires satellite rocket TEHRAN: Iran test-fired a domestically made satellite-carrier rocket on Wednesday, Iranian media said.
"Iran successfully launches home-built Kavoshgar-3 satellite rocket," English-language television station said. It said the rocket carried an "experimental capsule" and that it was the "first Iranian launch into orbit with a living thing", without giving details.
Iranian media said earlier the Islamic Republic would on Wednesday unveil three new satellites and another satellite carrier, named Simorgh. The reports said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended an official presentation ceremony in Tehran.