Yes the North Koreans have made 5 attempts to launch satellites. The last 2 have succeeded, however
According to western sources, North Korea's first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, continued tumbling out of control after being put into orbit and never transmitted any signals. The North Koreans however insisted that it functioned normally as planned
According to western sources, North Korea's second satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4, never transmitted any signals. This time the satellite was mostly stabilized after tumbling out of control initially. However again the North Koreans contradict this claim.
The North Korean SLVs transitioned from a payload of 100 kg to 200 kg. Iran on the other hand tried to make the leap from a payload of 50 kg to 350 kg after having failed to launch a more optimized variant of Safir with a 100 kg payload. The Safir SLV has since been retired and succeeded by the Zoljanah which has a payload of 200 kg. The Simorgh has a payload of 350 kg.
Iran has ambitions to eventually place medium and then large satellites (1 ton and larger), into GEO. Now that the budget for the space program has been significantly increased, we will have to wait and see what happens. According to officials, this calendar year will be very eventful.
According to western sources, North Korea's first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, continued tumbling out of control after being put into orbit and never transmitted any signals. The North Koreans however insisted that it functioned normally as planned
According to western sources, North Korea's second satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4, never transmitted any signals. This time the satellite was mostly stabilized after tumbling out of control initially. However again the North Koreans contradict this claim.
The North Korean SLVs transitioned from a payload of 100 kg to 200 kg. Iran on the other hand tried to make the leap from a payload of 50 kg to 350 kg after having failed to launch a more optimized variant of Safir with a 100 kg payload. The Safir SLV has since been retired and succeeded by the Zoljanah which has a payload of 200 kg. The Simorgh has a payload of 350 kg.
Iran has ambitions to eventually place medium and then large satellites (1 ton and larger), into GEO. Now that the budget for the space program has been significantly increased, we will have to wait and see what happens. According to officials, this calendar year will be very eventful.
You can blame Rouhani and his moderates all you want but the fact is under his government there was at least some progress on irans space program. It is not as though space program was frozen for 8 years.
Iranian space program under Rouhani admin:
- Successful launch of Fajr in February 2015
- Successful sub-orbital test of Simorgh in April 2016
- First test launch of solid fuel Zuljanah SLV in February 2021
- Development of new lightweight solid motors like "Salman"
- Qased mobile SLV
- Multiple test launches of Simorgh SLV
Spacex Falcon-1 only failed 3 times before it succeeded on its 4th launch and north korea also failed 3 times before its Unha-3 succeeded for the first time in December 2012. Both these SLV's had less failure than Simorgh which is now on its fourth consecutive launch failure.