Comment I hope they are successful (Score 1) 181
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Space_Agency
Environment 1, a joint research satellite of Iran, China and Thailand was launched on a Chinese Long March 2C carrier rocket on September 6, 2008, aimed at boosting cooperation on natural disasters such as flooding, drought, typhoon, landslide and earthquake. The twin Earth observation satellites of eight planned were launched from Taiyuan SLC. The satellites will work as a constellation with six other satellites yet to be launched. Its observational footprint is 720 km. With a lifespan of more than three years, they have state-of-the-art imaging systems and infrared cameras and provide a global scan every two days. Iran had shouldered $6.5 million dollars out of the $44 million dollars of the total project cost.[29][30]
Well maybe they have the sensing capacity. I for one hope it is successful. They would be supplying hard facts and data the more sources we have the harder censorship and manipulation is.