The launch preparations also come as the Guard reportedly saw one of its soldiers “martyred” in Semnan province under unclear circumstances over the weekend. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP) This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows vehicles at the checkout building at Imam Khomeini Space Center southeast of Semnan, Iran on Tuesday, June 14, 2022.
The Guard launched another satellite this March at another site in Semnan province, just east of the Iranian capital of Tehran. Meanwhile, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in April 2020 revealed its own secret space program by successfully launching a satellite into orbit. “was not involved in the catastrophic accident.” There’s been no evidence offered, however, to show foul play in any of the failures, and space launches remain challenging even for the world’s most successful programs. The successive failures raised suspicion of outside interference in Iran’s program, something Trump himself hinted at by tweeting at the time that the U.S. Trump, shows what appears to be a US intelligence photo of the aftermath of an explosion at Iran’s Imam Khomeini Space Center in the country’s Semnan province, August 29, 2019, with the smoldering remains of a rocket on a launch pad at the center, which was to conduct a US-criticized satellite launch. This image taken from the Twitter account of US President Donald J. Satellite images from February suggested a failed Zuljanah launch earlier this year, though Iran did not acknowledge it. He later tweeted what appeared to be a classified surveillance image of the launch failure. The launch pad used in Tuesday’s preparations remains scarred from an explosion in August 2019 that even drew the attention of then-US president Donald Trump. A fire at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in February 2019 also killed three researchers, authorities said at the time. There have been five failed launches in a row for the Simorgh program, a type of satellite-carrying rocket. The program has seen recent troubles, however. Over the past decade, Iran has sent several short-lived satellites into orbit and in 2013 launched a monkey into space. “Iranian aggression, to include the demonstrated threat posed by its various missile programs, continues to be a top concern for our forces in the region,” Lodewick said. Rob Lodewick, said the American military “will continue to closely monitor Iran’s pursuit of viable space launch technology and how it may relate to advancements in its overall ballistic missile program.”
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