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Launch Failure
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LAUNCH SITESemnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
Mission
According to U.S. Space Command, Iran suffered a rocket launch failure early on June 12th. While there are no details available as to which rocket was used, what the payload was or how exactly the launch had failed, OSINT efforts suggest that the launcher used was the Simorgh rocket. This makes it a fourth consecutive failure of the Simorgh launch vehicle.
- Launch vehicle
- Simorgh
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- Imam Khomeini Spaceport
- Provider
- Iranian Space Agency
The vehicle
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Launch vehicle
Simorgh
- Recorded launches
- 7
- First flight
- 2017-07-27
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Failure was reported per US government sources, however the details were not made public.
Launch site & orbit
Semnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
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