Iran plans second satellite launch

[AGENDA21]

Iran hopes to put a second satellite into orbit in two years, a senior telecommunications official has said.

Ebrahim Mahmoudzadeh, director of Sa Iran, a telecommunications firm affiliated to the defence ministry, told the official IRNA news agency on Monday that plans have been set into motion for a second satellite.

"We reached an agreement with Iran's Aerospace Organisation to produce Iran's second satellite called Pars ," Mahmoudzadeh said.

"The contract will be signed next month and it will probably be launched after two years."

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