Iran Space Agency Chief, Morteza Barari: update on astronauts program and biological capsule
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TV host: Iran intends to send Iranian astronauts into space, what's new about that? According to your expectations, when will that happen?
Murtaza Barari: Yes, we have two programs. The first is our desire to participate in the international research of the space sector. In this field, there is a path that is to benefit from the infrastructure of other countries through the presence on the International Space Station and the ability to participate in space research.
In addition to the aforementioned, we started with a project that we called the "bio-capsule", and its engineering model will be prepared at the end of the current month of February, and aviation model will be prepared during the coming month of June and we will put a person inside it. A robot with a human structure instead of a living being. It is assumed that this capsule will be sent to an altitude of 130 km and we will conduct tests through it, and we will gradually increase the height in order to reach the orbit of 400 km in the future.
addition to the above, we also began our attempts to send a person to space, so the engineering model of the biological capsule will become It is ready during the current month, while its flight model will be ready sometime in March next year. That is why we seek to give a push forward for the local route in conjunction with the international tracks