Sinah-1
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Sinah-1 is the first Iranian artificial satellite, launched at 6:52 UTC October 28, 2005 on board a Cosmos-3M Russian launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The miniaturized 160-kilogram reconnaissance satellite was put into a heliosynchronous near-polar orbit and will image the surface with a 3-meter resolution.
In 2003, then-Defense Minister Admiral Ali Shamkhani announced that Iran would launch its first satellite on a locally-produced launch vehicle within eighteen months. The plan was to develop a booster based on the Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile.
When difficulties arose with indigenous booster development, the Iranian Institute of Applied Research turned to the Omsk-based Russian company Polyot for both the launch services and Sinah-1, for which $8 million USD was paid.
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