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yes this is the part of the satellite that failed miserably and needs twerking or total redesign/replacement. He orbits around western powers quite often...
Redesign not possible sadly:no: as component has flawed guidance system:crazy:,I would suggest scrapping the component in question and starting again with a new design8-),also include the capacity for much wider/higher orbits to avoid becoming entrapped in dangerous or unstable close orbits.:kiss3:
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"Разгонный блок" transfers satellite from LEO orbit to desired orbit. But this satellite did not enter the orbit at all. So problem is elsewhere.

No, since separation often occurs at the suborbital stage of flight. Therefore I know many examples from our Russian experience, when problems with the "разгонный блок" caused the satellite to quickly fall to the Earth without placed it in the orbit overall.

For example failure of Fregat-M in 2017, after separate from Soyuz 2-1B rocket carrier.
"Soyuz employs a “fire-in-the-hole” staging method, with the third stage’s RD-0124 engine igniting while the second stage is still firing. The Blok-I third stage burned for four minutes and 36 seconds, placing the payload and the Fregat-M upper stage on a suborbital trajectory."
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/soyuz-2-1b-launch-meteor-m/

"According to the Roscosmos State Corporation, the Soyuz 2-1B rocket functioned properly during its nine-and-a-half-minute climb and handed off to the Fregat upper stage that was tasked with placing the Meteor-M 2-1 weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads into orbit; however, no communications were received from the 2,750-Kilogram satellite after its scheduled separation from the booster. Press reports emerged in the hours after Tuesday’s launch claiming the Fregat upper stage was improperly programmed and fired its main engine while in a wrong orientation, resulting in the vehicle re-entering the atmosphere after half an orbit instead of reaching a preliminary orbit as the starting point of what was planned to be a five-hour, multi-orbit mission. While initial reports point to human error in programming the Fregat, Roscosmos said detailed analysis was underway to determine what exactly went wrong."
http://spaceflight101.com/soyuz-fregat-meteor-m21-launch-failure/
 
Well,no space organization can say they never had failure...it is not exuse but every lunch in this field has great value,even if mission goal is not reached or satellite is lost.Any way it is interesting that one of the first two Iranian satellites lunched by Russia in 2005 Mesbah is still orbiting...Iran classified these two satellites as meteorological and experimental but many foreign experts claimed in that time that at least one(Mesbah) is actually surveillance and has military application...First two satellites lunched by Russian SLV were Sina and Mesbah and as I remember lifetime projected was 5-7 years...now it is 2019...ofcourse orbiting doesn't mean it is operative but interesting finding was that,in time when M.Pompeo issued warning to Iran to not lunch satellite few weeks ago,this satalite was above US(New York).I want to say,that Iran space program is young,and I think now after US pull out of JCPOA we can expect more from Iran space agency......

One of the news from 2005 ,well nothing is changed when it comes to rethoric about Iran

Moscow (AFP) Feb 02, 2005
Russia plans to launch later this year Iran's first two satellites which were built to gather intelligence from space, the business daily Kommersant reported Wednesday.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has signed a directive permitting the Russian defense ministry to launch the two satellites, named Mesbah and Sinah-1, from the Plesetsk launch site in the far north of the country, the daily said.

A copy of the government directive obtained by AFP confirmed that Russia planned to launch the two Iranian satellites as well as six others from countries including China, Britain, Norway, Germany, Japan and the European Space Agency.

The three-point directive, dated January 24, also stipulated that "foreign specialists" would be given access for the launches to the Plesetsk site, traditionally a closed military facility.

Russia has made no secret of its plans for commercial development of the Plesetsk space launch site as an alternative to its Baikonur site which is located in Kazakhstan but which Moscow has retained control over since the breakup of the Soviet Union under a long-term lease agreement.

Kommersant said the two Iranian satellites were due to be launched between April and June of this year and said they were designed for "distant examination of the earth's surface," a term the daily said was the common idiom for intelligence gathering.

A government spokesman contacted by AFP was unable to confirm the purpose of the Iranian satellites and the Fradkov directive described them only as built for "scientific purposes."

The satellites were to be launched aboard Russian-built Kosmos-3M rockets and would be placed in a low geo-stationary orbit, Kommersant said.

The news comes amid rising tension between the United States and Iran over the Islamic state's nuclear program and seemed likely to come under close scrutiny by Washington, which is nervous about Tehran's development of advanced technologies with dual military and civilian uses.

Iranian media reported Sunday that Tehran and Moscow had signed a 132-million-dollar contract for construction of a new Iranian telecommunications satellite, the Zohreh (Venus).

That satellite would be used to bolster Tehran's telecommunications infrastructure by handling data, audio and video signals, and is to be operational within two and a half years, the Iranian news agency IRNA said.

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Defense ministry hails Iran's successful space mission

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/141570/Defense-ministry-hails-Iran-s-successful-space-mission


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Well,no space organization can say they never had failure...it is not exuse but every lunch in this field has great value,even if mission goal is not reached or satellite is lost.Any way it is interesting that one of the first two Iranian satellites lunched by Russia in 2005 Mesbah is still orbiting...Iran classified these two satellites as meteorological and experimental but many foreign experts claimed in that time that at least one(Mesbah) is actually surveillance and has military application...First two satellites lunched by Russian SLV were Sina and Mesbah and as I remember lifetime projected was 5-7 years...now it is 2019...ofcourse orbiting doesn't mean it is operative but interesting finding was that,in time when M.Pompeo issued warning to Iran to not lunch satellite few weeks ago,this satalite was above US(New York).I want to say,that Iran space program is young,and I think now after US pull out of JCPOA we can expect more from Iran space agency......

One of the news from 2005 ,well nothing is changed when it comes to rethoric about Iran

Moscow (AFP) Feb 02, 2005
Russia plans to launch later this year Iran's first two satellites which were built to gather intelligence from space, the business daily Kommersant reported Wednesday.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has signed a directive permitting the Russian defense ministry to launch the two satellites, named Mesbah and Sinah-1, from the Plesetsk launch site in the far north of the country, the daily said.

A copy of the government directive obtained by AFP confirmed that Russia planned to launch the two Iranian satellites as well as six others from countries including China, Britain, Norway, Germany, Japan and the European Space Agency.

The three-point directive, dated January 24, also stipulated that "foreign specialists" would be given access for the launches to the Plesetsk site, traditionally a closed military facility.

Russia has made no secret of its plans for commercial development of the Plesetsk space launch site as an alternative to its Baikonur site which is located in Kazakhstan but which Moscow has retained control over since the breakup of the Soviet Union under a long-term lease agreement.

Kommersant said the two Iranian satellites were due to be launched between April and June of this year and said they were designed for "distant examination of the earth's surface," a term the daily said was the common idiom for intelligence gathering.

A government spokesman contacted by AFP was unable to confirm the purpose of the Iranian satellites and the Fradkov directive described them only as built for "scientific purposes."

The satellites were to be launched aboard Russian-built Kosmos-3M rockets and would be placed in a low geo-stationary orbit, Kommersant said.

The news comes amid rising tension between the United States and Iran over the Islamic state's nuclear program and seemed likely to come under close scrutiny by Washington, which is nervous about Tehran's development of advanced technologies with dual military and civilian uses.

Iranian media reported Sunday that Tehran and Moscow had signed a 132-million-dollar contract for construction of a new Iranian telecommunications satellite, the Zohreh (Venus).

That satellite would be used to bolster Tehran's telecommunications infrastructure by handling data, audio and video signals, and is to be operational within two and a half years, the Iranian news agency IRNA said.

All rights reserved. � 2004 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse.
European thieves (Italian specifically) confiscated the Mesbah sat. traitors in Iran planed to take it back after JCPOA and send it to museum! but it never returned.
 
European thieves (Italian specifically) confiscated the Mesbah sat. traitors in Iran planed to take it back after JCPOA and send it to museum! but it never returned.
Yeh,but they didn't stop Iran from lunching Mesbah..just delayed...mesbah was at the end lunched along with Sina 1 by Russians,on Cosmos 3 slv ...I never check was first Mesbah,confiscated by Italy,produced by Iran or like joint venture...
 
Yeh,but they didn't stop Iran from lunching Mesbah..just delayed...mesbah was at the end lunched along with Sina 1 by Russians,on Cosmos 3 slv ...I never check was first Mesbah,confiscated by Italy,produced by Iran or like joint venture...
Mesbah is still in Italy and has never been launched!
 
Sejjil what ??

I ment to say Safir (2008).

Iran’s satellite failures are occurring at a rapid rate.

When was the LAST successful Iranian satellite launch?

The Safir platform was given up after a string of failures. The last stage separation issue is nothing new has happened in the past.

After 10 years Iran still has the same inherent problems that plagued its 1st gen space vehicle in its 2nd gen space vehicle (last stage separation and satellite reaching intended orbit).
 
European thieves (Italian specifically) confiscated the Mesbah sat. traitors in Iran planed to take it back after JCPOA and send it to museum! but it never returned.
Mesbah is still in Italy and has never been launched!
Quick history Sina1 satellite which Iran paid Russia cash to launch to Orbit and Mesbah satellite joint cooperation construction with Italy

تجربه دوران فقدان موشک‌ ماهواره‌بر/ ایتالیا ماهواره مصباح را پرتاب نکرد و پس هم نداد/ ماهواره سینا را دادیم پرتاب کنند؛ معلوم نشد چه شد
https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1395/03/25/1089607/تجربه-دوران-فقدان-موشک-ماهواره-بر-ایتالیا-ماهواره-مصباح-را-پرتاب-نکرد-و-پس-هم-نداد-ماهواره-سینا-را-دادیم-پرتاب-کنند-معلوم-نشد-چه-شد
 
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No, since separation often occurs at the suborbital stage of flight. Therefore I know many examples from our Russian experience, when problems with the "разгонный блок" caused the satellite to quickly fall to the Earth without placed it in the orbit overall.

For example failure of Fregat-M in 2017, after separate from Soyuz 2-1B rocket carrier.
"Soyuz employs a “fire-in-the-hole” staging method, with the third stage’s RD-0124 engine igniting while the second stage is still firing. The Blok-I third stage burned for four minutes and 36 seconds, placing the payload and the Fregat-M upper stage on a suborbital trajectory."
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/soyuz-2-1b-launch-meteor-m/

"According to the Roscosmos State Corporation, the Soyuz 2-1B rocket functioned properly during its nine-and-a-half-minute climb and handed off to the Fregat upper stage that was tasked with placing the Meteor-M 2-1 weather satellite and 18 secondary payloads into orbit; however, no communications were received from the 2,750-Kilogram satellite after its scheduled separation from the booster. Press reports emerged in the hours after Tuesday’s launch claiming the Fregat upper stage was improperly programmed and fired its main engine while in a wrong orientation, resulting in the vehicle re-entering the atmosphere after half an orbit instead of reaching a preliminary orbit as the starting point of what was planned to be a five-hour, multi-orbit mission. While initial reports point to human error in programming the Fregat, Roscosmos said detailed analysis was underway to determine what exactly went wrong."
http://spaceflight101.com/soyuz-fregat-meteor-m21-launch-failure/
Simorgh is not designed for GTO/GEO orbits. So its just regular third stage.
 
Quick history Sina1 satellite which Iran paid Russia cash to launch to Orbit and Mesbah satellite joint cooperation construction with Italy

تجربه دوران فقدان موشک‌ ماهواره‌بر/ ایتالیا ماهواره مصباح را پرتاب نکرد و پس هم نداد/ ماهواره سینا را دادیم پرتاب کنند؛ معلوم نشد چه شد
https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1395/03/25/1089607/تجربه-دوران-فقدان-موشک-ماهواره-بر-ایتالیا-ماهواره-مصباح-را-پرتاب-نکرد-و-پس-هم-نداد-ماهواره-سینا-را-دادیم-پرتاب-کنند-معلوم-نشد-چه-شد
https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=28893#results
 

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