A Kazakhstan-Iranian satellite aimed chiefly at predicting earthquakes may soon be launched into the orbit. The institute of space research of Kazakhstan has made public this initiative. It already has been proven and confirmed that in seismically active regions seismic processes influencing the upper layers of the Earth atmosphere start a few hours before an intense earthquake occurs. A satellite traveling in a low altitude orbit might very well plot these processes. Scientific research work in this direction had been carried out in Kazakhstan during the days of the USSR. At that time, two international establishments took part in the program “Interspace” – a unique mathematical program that processed the data from such satellites and was saved. The interest of Iranian scientists in forecasting earthquakes dramatically increased one and half years ago, after the tragedy in Bam city. In December 2003 over 40 thousand Iranians were killed there during a major earthquake. A rather developed earthquake-monitoring network does function in the country, but there are no such space technologies in Iran.

Bagdat Suimenbayev, deputy-director, space researches scientific institute: “The launching will surely be carried out from Baikonur cosmodrome, and of course, by a conversion rocket, because it is the cheapest. We plan to make a platform together with Russia, yet all the payload, all mathematical summaries and further processing and experimentation we will do ourselves. We are free to do so in these regards.”

It is noteworthy that interest in the problem is growing each year. Kazakhstani specialists together with the French space agency CNES have prepared the technical and economic aspects of the project. Such a satellite will cost 1.5-2 million US dollars

International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology and Iranian Space Agency together held a workshop on Space Technology Applications for Earthquake Prediction on October 5th, 2010, as part of the World Space Week events in Iran.

International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology and Iranian Space Agency together held a workshop on Space Technology Applications for Earthquake Prediction on October 5th, 2010, as part of the World Space Week events in Iran. The 5 hour workshop started its work at 9 AM in the Auditorium of the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, with the speech of Dr. Zare, President of the National Center for Earthquake Prediction and Research and Technology Director of the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology. The starting speech was followed by an introduction of UN SPIDER Support Office in the Iranian Space Agency, given by Mr. Sadeghi Naeeni from the Iranian Space Agency. The session followed by several experts, including Dr. Mehrnia, Dr. Allamezadeh, Dr. Tarikhi, Ms. Atiye Mohseni, Dr. Babak Mansouri, Dr. Anushirvan Ansari, Ms. Fateme Mehralizade, and Dr. Hamid Zaferani, addressing the audience on the use of space data for earthquake prediction.

Navid-e-Elm-o-Sanat | 2012-005-A

Iranian Experts to Manufacture Earthquake Prediction Satellite

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian researchers plan to manufacture a law-altitude satellite which helps predict earthquakes from space.

The satellite dubbed Ayat (Signs) will help predict the time of earthquakes for the first time in the country.

Deputy Head of Iran's Industrial and Scientific Studies Center for Innovation and International Cooperation Mohammad Hassan Entezari said the satellite would identify the signals sent out from the earth before or after the earthquake, adding the satellite weighs 50-70 kg and would be placed in a lower altitude.

He stressed some countries including France, China and Russia are working in this regard, noting Ayat satellite possesses a key role in processing the seismic disturbances before and after the shocks.

Entezari stated that basic studies have been carried out and the practical process would begin after required budget is provided.

Iran sits astride several major faults in the earth's crust, and is prone to frequent earthquakes, many of which have been devastating.

The worst in recent times hit Bam in southeastern Kerman province in December 2003, killing 31,000 people - about a quarter of its population - and destroying the city's ancient mud-built citadel.

The deadliest quake in the country was in June 1990 and measured 7.7 on the Richter scale. About 37,000 people were killed and more than 100,000 injured in the northwestern provinces of Gilan and Zanjan. It devastated 27 towns and about 1,870 villages.

Tehran alone sits on two major fault lines, and the capital's 14 million residents fear a major quake.

Send satellites into space, Iranian Earthquake

Assistant Research Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Center, stating that the design and construction projects in support of the Department of Seismology satellite is operational, said the final approval of the satellite observation and earthquake prediction is made.

October, Dr. Mehdi Zare said, referring to the detailed implementation of this project: One of Iran Activities of Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is to design and build satellites. In this regard, the 2 years prior to making the organization negotiated with the Institute of Seismology Seismology satellites began.

Assistant Research Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, said the two negotiating sessions workshop specialized in designing and manufacturing satellite Seismology and Earthquake Prediction was held for the purposes and uses of satellites in various aspects of seismology and its technical aspects were investigated.

He expressed that seismology of satellites expected in the seismic observations, Measurement of surface changes and help predict earthquakes, said: Documentation provided with various aspects of Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation satellite on Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Institute have developed a joint proposal.

farmer pointed to the situation in other countries use Seismology satellites, pointed out: in 2004 for the purposes of prediction of earthquake seismology French satellite sent into space in 2009 and the Chinese satellite was sent into space for the purposes of Seismology and Earthquake Observation.

Iran's goal of Post satellite into space seismology, earthquake forecasting and observation, and as noted: Iran has a history of design and manufacture of satellites and satellite Seismology what is important is the technology used for sensors Seismology.

These sensors must be designed and constructed so that the observatory should be able to predict earthquakes. farmer emphasized that the design and construction of this satellite is not yet operational, continued: Ministry of Science, Research and Technology supported this project If a definitive agreement and the support that they needed to be implemented.

status of earthquake Research Assistant Research Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, the seismic situation in the country, he added in a recent month in the north, Center more than 60 earthquakes have been recorded in and around Tehran. Wednesday, Persian date Bahman 26 to 29 Bahman in the region of Damavand, earthquakes with magnitudes 4.6, 3.4 and 3.1 Richter scale occurred.

Damavand He emphasized that the active fault zone earthquakes in this region, said: volcanic earthquakes Tknvtyky is different from earthquakes and volcanic earthquake seismologists to detect Tknvtyky of earthquakes and the faults are active. farmers expressed that with the seismic record earthquakes with magnitude greater than 4 parts of the country is provided, said the possibility of using satellites Seismology Observatory will provide Complete earthquakes accurately.

Industrial Research Organization of Iran Research Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering and Seismology in the design and manufacture of satellites with called "revelations" were. Identification of the satellite signal before and after the earthquake, the earth is rising, with 50 to 70 kg weight that is designed to be low in height.

Satellite tokens are designed such that the disturbance process created before and after the earthquake will have a stake in earthquake prediction. In addition, these satellites will be able markers that detect and measure earthquakes in a wide range of land uses.

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The first satellite will be built in seismology

Engineer Mohamed Hassan vs seismology country's first satellite, called "revelations" are designed and built by Iranian scientists.

Mr. Mohammad Hassan expect innovation and international cooperation, Deputy Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Iran said the satellite's mission: to identify the satellite signal before and after the earthquake that is rising from the earth, is designed and weighted will be approximately 50 to 70 kg at low altitude.

He pointed out: Signs with the processing of satellite disturbances before and after an earthquake caused a major role in earthquake prediction will be.

Satellite markers before the earthquake in the detection and measurement of a wide range of land uses.

He said the agreement concluded between the Ministry of Science Research and Technology, Research and Technology and the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering is going to be doing this project in cooperation with these two institutions.

Expected that the initial studies were done and after the project funding and construction of the satellite design process begins.

Deputy for Scientific and Industrial Research Organization said now countries like France, China and Russia are working in this field and other countries are way too early.

The President visited the country's achievements in Aerospace

President of the Trade specialists and technology achievements in the field of air - and the near space visited during our latest achievements and technologies in the air - space satellites under construction.

News ID: 34 786 - Thursday, Persian date Bahman 20 1390 - 08:46

Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this morning (Thursday) to day relations with the presence of space technology in the Aerospace Industry Achievements Exhibition and description of the exhibition visited specialists, technologists and officials were at the latest. In this exhibition, Sharif University, Amir Kabir , Science and Technology, Nasir Toosi, Malek and the State Scientific Research, Aerospace Research, Aerospace Technology Development Headquarters; latest spatial industry including the National Zafar satellites, telecommunication satellites, Venus, the promise of science and technology satellites, observation satellites, Fajr satellite, satellite revelations that Iran has Seismology and crawling as a satellite launch one to four and a graphic simulator, satellite AUT SAT, Amirkabir University of Technology Satellite Student heat control is displayed. Also in the exhibition development process satellite technology in the Department of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics is shown. Sardar Vahidi Secretary of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, Tqypvr Minister of Communications and Information Technology, National Space Agency and Soltankhah Fazeli director of science and technology vice president, Ahmadinejad, in this Statistics are associated.

Executive-Director of Iran's Electronic Industries (SAIRAN) Ebrabim Mahmoudzadeh announced that the country is self-sufficient in manufacturing satellite parts and equipment.
Addressing a ceremony in the southern city of Shiraz on Sunday, Mahmoudzadeh said that Iranian experts are now able to manufacture all satellite devices and equipment and the country is self-sufficient in producing satellite parts, Fars News Agency reported.
"Some people still assume that we supply our needed equipment from abroad, while we have been able to acquire the latest advanced technologies despite (West's) sanctions," he stated. Iranian researchers also plan to manufacture a law-altitude satellite which helps forecast earthquakes from space.
The satellite, called Ayat (Signs), will predict the time of earthquakes for the first time in the country.
Deputy head of Iran's Industrial and Scientific Studies Center for Innovation and International Cooperation, Mohammad Hassan Entezari last week said the satellite will identify the signals sent from the earth before or after the earthquake, adding the satellite weighs 50-70 kg and will be placed in a lower altitude.
He stressed that some countries including France, China and Russia are working in this regard, noting Ayat satellite possesses a key role in processing the seismic disturbances before and after the shocks.
Iran launched its first domestically-developed satellite, Omid (Hope), in 2009 making the Islamic Republic the ninth nation with satellite launching capability.
On June 20, 2011, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the country has gained access to the technology of developing various satellites and will soon launch larger satellites that will be placed in circular orbits at an altitude of nearly 35,000 kilometers (21,748 miles).
Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Outer Space, which was established in 1959.

Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour suggested the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) member states start joint production of telecommunication satellites.

Addressing the first meeting of ECO states’ communication and information technology ministers in Tehran on Sunday, Taqipour called for launching ‘studies on possible grounds to manufacture telecommunication equipment and use common knowledge and know-how to design and build joint telecommunication satellites’, Fars News Agency reported.

He also asked the ECO members to cooperate and exchange information on software and hardware fields, providing various ICT services, building infrastructures, providing e-government services, cooperation among mobile operators in various fields, including reducing tariffs for international roaming, creating and enhancing facilities for technical testing of roaming and increasing the capacity of international gateways.

The Islamic Republic, which first put a satellite into orbit in 2009, has outlined an ambitious space program and has, thus far, made giant progress in the field despite western sanctions and pressures against its advancements.

Iran has so far launched Omid satellite in February 2009, Rassad in June 2011 and Navid in February 2012.

Iran announced in August that the country’s researchers plan to manufacture a low-altitude satellite to predict earthquakes from space. The satellite dubbed Ayat (Signs) will help predict the time of earthquakes for the first time in the country.

Mehdi Akhoondzadeh, University of Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Reza Saradjian, University of Tehran, Iran

Since not any individual precursor can be used as an accurate stand alone means for the earthquake prediction, it is necessary to integrate different kinds of precursors. The precursors selected for analysis in this study include electron and ion density, electron temperature, total electron content (TEC), electric and magnetic fields and land surface temperature (LST) several days before five strong earthquakes which happened in Samoa Islands, Sichuan (China), L'Aquila (Italy), Borujerd (Iran) and Zarand (Iran). The precursor's variations were monitored using data obtained from experiments onboard DEMETER (IAP, ISL, ICE and IMSC), Aqua-MODIS and NOAA-AVHRR satellites. Regarding the ionospheric precursors, the geomagnetic indices Dst and Kp were used to distinguish pre-earthquake disturbed states from the other anomalies related to the geomagnetic activities. In order to detect disturbed states that might be associated with impending earthquake, the variations of different earthquake precursors regarding the five earthquakes have been analyzed in this study. The inter-quartile range of data was utilized to construct their upper and lower bound to detect disturbed states outsides the bounds which might be associated with impending earthquakes. When the disturbed state associated with impending earthquake is detected, based on the type of precursor, the number of days relative to earthquake day is estimated. Then regarding the deviation value of the precursor from the undisturbed state the magnitude of impending earthquake is estimated. The radius of the affected area is calculated using the estimated magnitude and Dobrovolsky formula. In order to assess final earthquake parameters (which are date, magnitude and radius of the affected area) for each case study, using the median and inter-quartile range of earthquake parameters obtained from different precursors, the approximate bounds of final earthquake parameters are defined. For each studied case, a good agreement was found between the estimated and registered earthquake parameters. The results indicate that the number and diversity of earthquake precursors lead to a precise estimation of earthquake parameters.

* Electron and ion density variations before strong earthquakes (M>6.0) using DEMETER and GPS data | Mehdi Akhoondzadeh Hanzaei

IRNA: Research Assistant International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, design and construction of satellites detected signs to predict earthquakes and earthquake-prone areas in the country and said: This is a satellite and its launcher house expertise to design and can be built.

Mehdi Zare said the power of satellite technology researchers and practitioners working in the interior there is a local satellite to predict earthquakes, the identification of the country, and the study of seismic designed will.

He said the satellite based on a memorandum of cooperation between the International Institute of Seismology and Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology is designed. The purpose of the satellite, and especially the regions of seismicity based on scientific data and satellite.

He said that currently Iran's capability and technology to build satellites and launch satellites into space has been made large by local experts and is thrown. Satellite verses have certain features in making the case for satellite mounted sensor data is of great importance.

He continued: When satellites are launched to collect data from the sensors mounted on it, and they attempted to categorize the sensitivity and accuracy of these sensors is very important.

Zare said of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization satellite by Iranian experts and professionals involved in the design of the Earthquake Research Institute's science satellite data received from the satellite, and then they collect and receive are analyzed.

He said for the first time in 70 American professionals in order to identify the first satellite sent into space in seismic areas not currently known, most popular and most cited scientific satellites that are related to the data in France and most of the data is used by researchers worldwide.

Earthquake Seismology Institute faculty member said about 10 years ago with the goal of earthquake prediction French satellite in Earth orbit, and so far it has been good data.

He currently countries like America, Russia, France and China have the technology.

During the I.R.Iran president and his cabinet members provincial tours to the North of Iran, Dr. S.Hosseini, Minister of Economic Affairs & Finance & Dr. Fazeli, president of Iranian Space Agency (ISA), inaugurated the Mazandaran Space Research Institute in Tonekabon, Mazandaran province.

Early Earthquake Detection and Warning Alarm System in Iran by a Telegraph Operator: A 116-Year-Old Disaster Prevention Attempt

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian experts and engineers are working on an advanced satellite system to foresee seismological changes and earthquakes, a senior research official announced on Wednesday. "It is predicted that the satellite (Ayat) will be put into orbit by March 2016," Head of the Telecommunications and Satellite Technology Research Center Shervin Amiri told reporters on Wednesday.

Amiri noted that the satellite will be put into orbit on the back of a an Iran-made rocket.

He underlined that the mission of Ayat will be studying the impacts of earthquakes on the Earth's magnetic field in a bid to foresee the happening of future quakes and tremors.

"We have already conducted feasibility studies of the project and we are in the designing phase," Amiri added.

Omid (hope) was Iran's first research satellite that was designed for gathering information and testing equipment. After orbiting for three months, Omid successfully completed its mission without any problem. It completed more than 700 orbits over seven weeks and reentered the Earth's atmosphere on April 25, 2009.

Iran unveiled its new telecommunication satellite, Persian Gulf, in an official ceremony in Tehran in early February.

Persian Gulf, designed and manufactured by researchers of Malek Ashtar University of Technology, was unveiled in a ceremony attended by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Vice-President for Executive Affairs Mohammad Shariatmadari and the country’s space officials.

The satellite is being used for establishing safe and secured communications contacts in narrow band and will also provide SMS services both inside and outside the country.

The Persian Gulf’s applications include exchange of text and digital audio messages among the users.

The satellite is also capable of exchanging data among users in wireless networks.

Satellite seismology 'revelations' to two years in orbit is completely Iranian capabilities.

Technology reporter Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Sherwin-Amiri, head of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Iran's telecommunications and satellite technology in today's press conference held at the agency stated that the major satellite project seismology verses the specialized committees of Supreme Council of Tf is under review, said the overall project sponsored by Department of Science and Technology under the President and the Ministry of Communications has already been done in the feasibility phase and are entering the qualifying stages.

He stated that the satellite is placed in orbit seismology verses low altitude flight, said it is expected that the satellite is placed in orbit over the next two years.

According to Amir, the Iranian satellite entirely appropriate to the capabilities of Iranian scientists and credibility is predicted for the eight billion dollars.

TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) - President of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) has said Iran will join earthquake prediction project using ionosphere satellites.
Hamid Fazeli told Mehr News that the project would be a joint venture of Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) 8 member states. “The joint cooperation was passed by APSCO and it is underway; the project studying components in ionosphere layer in earth’s space using satellites revolving around the earth; the layer components would catch earthquake waves before it happens, thus making its prediction a reality,” Fazeli said.
“Many countries have launched projects of this sort to facilitate possible earthquakes,” said the ISA president. “Iran will conduct parts of the project individually and some other parts in cooperation with APSCO members,” he added.

Tehran - IRNA - Head of Research and Technology Telecommunications Satellite Organization for Scientific and Industrial Research of Iran completed a Phase II study and preliminary design of the satellite Misbah said.

Scientific IRNA reporter, doctor Sherwin Amiri Tuesday on the sidelines of the Fourteenth Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society of the reporters said, making a second model with satellite Mesbah satellite verses of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization began a few years ago and now To continue its implementation are awaiting funding.

He credits required for the implementation of the different phases of satellite verses cited five billion dollars and said: Now we wait trustee of the National Space specify the domain space.

Using satellite missions verses Amiri said the main mission of these satellites to predict earthquakes before they happen is to distinguish the effects of earthquake phenomena through it.

He reminded that the construction of the satellite Seismology verses of all technical knowledge Mesbah satellite've used.

Fourteenth Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization hosted Tuesday Iran was held.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the 14th Iranian Space Associations Conference in Tehran, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace Mohammad Hassan Entezari said that the country is ready to launch Mesbah (Lantern) telecommunications satellite.
Entezari also announced that the second version of the satellite is being built, adding that it will provide a high technological capability for the country.
Meantime, Head of Iran’s Telecommunications and Satellite Technology Research Center Shervin Amiri told reporters on the sidelines of the conference that the research phase and basic design of the second version, Mesbah II, is finished.
The second version, which needs a budget of some $1.8 million, will be mainly used for earthquake anticipation, Amiri explained.
Earlier in February, Iran successfully sent the homegrown Fajr (Dawn) satellite into orbit with a domestically-built satellite carrier, dubbed Safir-e Fajr.
Iran has in recent years made great headways in manufacturing satellites thanks to the efforts made by its local scientists.
In January 2013, Iran sent a monkey into space aboard an indigenous bio-capsule code-named Pishgam (Pioneer).
Later in December 2013, the country’s scientists could successfully send a monkey, called ‘Fargam’ or Auspicious, into space aboard Pajoheshan (Research) indigenous rocket and return the live simian back to earth safely.

地震発生予知専用のイラン国産人工衛星「アーヤート｣の製造が開始されました。
イスナー通信によりますと、｢イランの工業科学研究機関の通信・人工衛星技術研究所のアミーリー所長は、１１日水曜、テヘランで行われたイラン航空宇宙協会の第１４回会議の傍ら、「人工衛星メスバーフ１号の第２世代の設計・建設が開始され、「アーヤート」と名付けられている」としました。
アミーリー所長はまた、人工衛星「アーヤート」は、地震発生を予知する任務を果たすことになっていると語りました。
人工衛星「メスバーフ１号」は、通信用の衛星であり、イランのバーチャル空間最高評議会のエンテザーリー書記によりますと、この人工衛星は、打ち上げの準備ができた状態にあるということです。

Head of the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's telecommunications and satellite technology to complete the initial design phase II model Mesbah satellite and said: In this context, we look forward to providing the necessary resources.

Technology reporter Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Sherwin Amiri today on the sidelines of the Fourteenth Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society said: The second model was a satellite Misbah Misbah after the name of the satellite has been named and currently works and verses feasibility studies and preliminary design phase begins and it is over and we are waiting for resources.

According to him, the second model Mesbah satellite currently requires about five billion dollars of resources.

Amiri added that the construction of the satellite mission is to predict earthquakes before they happen all the technical knowledge will be a satellite Mesbah.

MH expected, secretary of the Supreme Council of cyberspace and project Misbah Misbah on the sidelines of the conference stated that a satellite ready for launch, said the international barriers hindering the launch of the satellite.

He emphasized that the major decisions in the field of space to move towards sustainability and sustainable management stated that it should be in the area of spatial promote.

Expressed the expectation that the Mesbah satellite, satellite communications and operations, said second model of the satellite are making a lot of capabilities that the technology will be applied.

Mesbah (Norbert Brugge)

The telecommunication satellite will be put into space by a domestically developed launcher, Va’ezi said in a ceremony organized to mark National Day of Space Technology.

“Indigenization of space technologies is the main focus of the Iranian Space Agency,” the minister noted.

Also, Va’ezi said high on the agenda will be cooperation with major global partners active in the aerospace industry to supply components required for the manufacturing of the satellites and initial talks have already being held.

In the event, President Hassan Rouhani unveiled a micro-class fifty-kilogram satellite dubbed the Friendship Satellite.

* The Iranian Space Program Thread (Orbiter-forum)

Ayrna- Vice President of Innovation Research Organization for Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran completion of the conceptual design phase of Seismology Satellite Over the next month's revelations.

MH expected Saturday in an interview with IRNA reporter about the scientific satellite project verses executive said after the launch Mesbah satellite was practically stopped, continue to be more serious signs of satellites took over.

He explained about the operation of this specialized satellites: Earth before and during an earthquake, a series emits electromagnetic waves of the changes in the ionosphere and satellites using the same signs of change, earthquake prediction work do.

Expect continued Satellite Signs of Seismology, at the bottom of the earth (the ionosphere layer) is placed, changes in ionospheric layers and also to measure the incoming waves of the earth, and on the basis of this information, confirm that the abnormal situation on the eve of and to warn of an earthquake.

He said: Scientific and Industrial Research Organization based on the experiences of Mesbah satellite designed and built by the same team of experts, Satellite signs completed the study phase and its conceptual design phase that started about a year ago, about a the next two months will be completed. According to Vice President of Innovation Research Organization for Science and Technology, design and manufacture of satellites signs, a three-year project that a year has elapsed.

Stating that the satellite credits verses in the specialized committees of the Supreme Council Tf (Science and Technology) was passed, expressed hope that with the allocation of the necessary funds, the implementation of mega projects, speed and accelerate. One of the major signs of Seismology satellite project plan approved by the Supreme Council of National and Tf is sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology started presidency among its supporters.

This specialized satellites in low altitude and with its launch can be seen earthquakes before they occur and their impact on the biosphere of the Earth (the layer of Earth where life exists) predicted that due to the Iran earthquake will be of great importance for our country.

Vice President Innovation, Commercialization and Technology Transfer Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Iran said the satellite concept "Earthquake Signs" has been completed and we are now awaiting funding.

According to IRIB News Agency, the satellite "Earthquake Signs" indigenous satellite with the aim of earthquake prediction, earthquake-prone areas to identify and study these areas in the country is considered based on a memorandum of cooperation between the International Institute of Seismology and Research Organization for Science and Technology, design and build.

MH expect in an exclusive interview with our correspondent said policy in the new year waiting for satellites are in charge of the debate.

Vice President Innovation, Commercialization and Technology Transfer Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Iran said that such programs are designed our new satellite in verses earthquake and track the status Mesbah satellite.

Referring to verses the expected completion of the conceptual design of satellites stated: Now we Mntzrdryaft funds and funds to continue operating the satellite.

Satellite him about the latest situation, "Mesbah", also said the decision to launch the satellite has been done and now we are waiting for the budget.

Satellite "Mesbah", a low-orbit satellites and is set for science, research and educational use. Identify water resources, soil, water, climate control, water networks, electricity, oil and gas and aid in disasters including objectives and launch satellites "Mesbah" is.

Satellite manufacturing agreement, "Mesbah", was signed in 1376 between the Ministries of Science and Communication and development laboratory from 1378 to 1380 in the satellites with the assistance of Scientific and Industrial Research of Iran Telecommunication Research Center was conducted. Mesbah satellite spatial modeling and engineering in collaboration with an Italian company that carried out by internal specialists.

Iran and Kazakhstan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) allowing access for both countries to each other’s space launch and satellite facilities.

Kazakh Minister for Investment Aset Isekeshev visited Tehran on Tuesday, 12 April 2016, and signed the MoU along with Iranian Vice-President for Scientific Affairs Sorena Sattari.

According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), among the other issues agreed upon between the two countries are nanotechnology cooperation, information technology exchanges, and the possible joint development of a technology park.

Kazakhstan is home to the Baikonur Cosmodrome situated in the desert steppe some 200km east of the Aral Sea. Baikonur Cosmodrome is leased by the Russian government and is one of the busiest space launch facilities is the world.

The Kazakh space agency, known as KazCosmos also uses the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the launch, and tracking and control, of its own satellites such as its communications satellites KazSat-1 and -2.

For its part, the Iranian Space Agency maintains space launch facilities at Emamsharh, near the city of Shahrud in Iran’s northeast, one near the city of Qom in Iran’s interior, and another launch site in development near the city of Semnan, also in the northeast of Iran.

Iran is also rapidly building and expanding its ground infrastructure to support space launches and satellite operations, to include satellite tracking, telemetry, and control facilities and a space situational awareness (SSA) centre near Delijan, a city located not far from Qom.

As Iran seeks to establish itself as a major regional space power, to include ambitious plans for manned spaceflight and possible participation in China’s space station project, it is likely looking to Kazakhstan for capacity building of space launch expertise, as well as to establish the possibility to launch Iranian satellites and other spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome if necessary.

Geopolitically, the agreement to allow mutual access to space facilities reflects burgeoning relations between Tehran and Astana in recent years. Trade between the two countries has rapidly expanded, and both seek to establish mutually advantageous relations with each other.

For Kazakhstan, Iran offers an opportunity to diversify its foreign and security policy interests away from Russia and China, as well as to also utilize Iran’s infrastructure in order to access Middle East markets.

Similarly, for Iran good relations with Kazakhstan allows it access to the increasingly important Central Asian region, especially as China steps up its revival of the ancient Silk Road trade routes through the region, known as the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) initiative. Tehran hopes to play a significant role in the OBOR in the coming years.

Finally, both countries are keen to accelerate their respective space programmes for the purposes of prestige, national security, and strategic autonomy.

Iranian officials are in talks with Italy for the return of the Iranian Mesbah (Farsi for ‘Lantern’) satellite, according to the head of the Iranian Space Agency Mohsen Bahrami.

The Mesbah satellite was seized by Italy and Russia just prior to its scheduled launch in 2006, due to the imposition of the international sanctions regime in response to concerns about Iran’s nuclear programme.

Mesbah, a low-Earth orbit communications satellite, was cooperatively built by the Iran Telecommunications Research Centre (ITRC), Iranian Electronics Industry Organisation, the Iranian Research Organisation for Science and Technology (IROST), and the Iranian Institute of Applied Research, along with the Italian satellite manufacturer Carlo Gavazzi Space S.p.A.

TEHRAN, Iran — The head of Iran’s space agency said Tuesday his country is interested in cooperating with NASA.

Speaking to reporters at the start of World Space Week, Mohsen Bahrami said that “many in the world look at NASA’s programs. We are interested in having cooperation, naturally. When you are in orbit, there is no country and race.”

It was the first time Iran had expressed such interest since signing last summer’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers.

Bahrami said, however, that cooperation will only be possible with the agreement of leaders of both countries. He emphasized that Iran has a peaceful and powerful civil space program. “We have capabilities and we are part of an international scene,” he said.

Iran has begun negotiations on technical cooperation with the space agencies of various countries in Europe, as well as Russia, China and Japan, Bahrami said. He did not elaborate.

Iran has long harbored ambitions to put its own satellites into orbit to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation, improve telecommunications and expand military surveillance. The U.S. and its allies worry that the same technology could also be used to develop long-range missiles. Iran has denied that it is using its space program to develop new weapons, and has said it is willing to share its scientific findings and satellite data with other countries.

Over the past decade, Iran has sent dummy satellites to orbit. Bahrami said the country plans to send three domestically-made mini satellites into a low Earth orbit by early 2018.

In 2013, Iran sent a monkey into space and set up its first space tracking center to monitor objects passing in orbit overhead.

Iran's Communication Minister Mahmoud Vaezi expressed on Tuesday hope for the immediate start of the construction of an Iranian satellite in cooperation with Russia.

"I hope that after this session the construction of the satellite in cooperation with Russia will start," Vaezi said.

* Iran and Russia signed an economic road map / satellite remote sensing starts tomorrow

The Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) was formally inaugurated in 2008 with the objective of the peaceful usage of space by developing space applications, exploiting space technology and exploring space science for promotion of sustainable socio-economic development and benefit people in the Asia – Pacific region. As an inter-governmental organization, APSCO has already developed eight full Member States, namely Bangladesh, China, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand and Turkey, one Signatory State: Indonesia and one Observer State: Mexico.

Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan unveiled the new projects, including the country’s first domestic geoportal, a system for calibration of satellite altimetry, and the first phase of a local network of permanent border posts, Tasnim news agency reported.

Dehqan said the satellite altimetry calibration system is able to measure water depth in the oceans, seas and gulfs with high accuracy.

The homegrown geoportal provides online and updated services for finding geographic information and positioning data for various purposes, he noted.

According to the minister, the local positioning network can be used for a range of fields, including military navigation and positioning, border control, dynamics of the earth, crisis management, earthquake prediction, meteorology, atmospheric water vapor estimation, transportation and traffic control, and agriculture.

Mohammad Hossein Entezari said: "While respecting the chairman of the space agency and his efforts, we should emphasize that the efforts of the space organization of Iran, as the trustee of the country's space technology development, should be better suited to address the issue of boycotting satellite technology. In the end, he said: According to the Mesbah Satellite Research Team, the largest satellite technology research team that is currently designing the earthquake satellite, a discussion of topics such as the sending and costing of the Mesbah Satellite launch site has been a discursive and non-specialist topic. In the direction of developing technologies, it is not strategic and empowerment of the country.

* Mesbah衛星オペレーターの批判は、衛星を博物館に送ることについてです (IROST)

According to the new APSCO policy for distance education (offline and online) and the provision and distribution of specialized educational films for all member countries, several training courses have been conducted in accordance with the needs of members in member countries, including Iran, with a brief explanation. Some of them are listed below.

According to the Deputy Director of the Organization for Scientific and Industrial Research of Iran in an interview with the Espash.ir, the project remains the same during the same conceptual design phase as the satellite revenues are not funded. Expected also said, "The credits were provided by the Aerospace Headquarters and the Elite National Foundation, but due to lack of funding, the two institutions were not able to support and sponsor, and the plan that has been approved at the Supreme Council of Attif has been stopped."

Of course, he emphasized that the country is in the early stages of the satellite design, and on the other hand, the world is in the early stages of using satellite technology to detect an earthquake before its occurrence, because of the probability that the satellite Ayat would be erroneous or not accurately identified by the earthquake. But there should be no reason to continue to research and build the next examples.

"So far, this kind of satellite has been built in several countries and is a pre-indicator of the earthquake, and it should be allowed to develop the satellite in the country," he added.

Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement Mohammad Hossein Zolfaqari has ruled out a link between repeated earthquakes in Iran and the HAARP project, saying the claim lacks scientific basis.

Iran’s minister of communication and information technology has said that the country is making the final preparations for the launch of four satellites into space, Mehr News Agency reported. Speaking at a conference on space technology, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi explained that one satellite produced by Sharif University of Technology is ready to be dispatched into orbit, while the other three are in the final pre-launch stages. He also emphasized that Iran’s “space missions” should be handled by a “single institution” and called on the country’s armed forces not to carry out “parallel” space work and maintain the country’s space missions peaceful. He also reported on a 20 percent increase in the budget for Iran’s space activities.

Iranian Space Agency

Iranian Space Research Center

Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) (INSA)

The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) was established in 1980 with the aim of supporting researches, innovators and craftsmen throughout the country. Considering Iran’s vision for development and missions assigned by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, IROST, as the largest scientific and technology oriented organization, has successfully supported and utilized the potentials of Iranian researchers, innovators and experts to take the leading role in fulfilling the scientific and technological needs of the country.

IROST consists of 7 Research Institutes. The Aerospace Research Groups, in Mechanical Engineering Institute and Electrical and Computer Science Engineering Institute, actively undertake research and development activities in the field of design and manufacturing mechanical subsystems and design and execution of environmental tests on space materials, development of satellite payloads and ground stations for Mesbah store and forward communication satellite and AYAT satellite for earthquake prediction, as well as development of aerospace applications.

Journal of Geomatics Science And Technology

Mansouri Daneshvar, M.R. & Freund, F.T. Remote Sensing of Atmospheric and Ionospheric Signals Prior to the Mw 8.3 Illapel Earthquake, Chile 2015 Pure Appl. Geophys. 2016

Pre Earthquake Signals, Iranian Geophysical Society, 2012

Challenges and Lessons Learned in Manufacturing the first Satellite Structure, 8th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation Berlin, Germany, April, 2011

The MESBAH project, IST 2005, 10-12 September 2005 Shiraz

United Nations/ Islamic Republic of Iran Regional Workshop on the Use of Space Technology for Environmental Security, Disaster Rehabilitation and Sustainable Development Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, 8 - 12 May 2004

Iranian Satellites Ready For Launch (Pravda)

Iranian Satellites (Norbert Brugge)

Iranian Space (NASASpaceFlight.com Forum)

Iranian Space (Novosti Kosmonavtiki BBS)

Satellites of Iran (Gunter's Space Page)

Science and technology in Iran (Wikipedia)

Iranian Space Agency (JAXA)

IRAN LAUNCH RECORD (from 1998) (Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive)