Iran's 'Khayyam' satellite is booked to take off from the Moscow-worked Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, three weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iran's Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran
Almaty, Kazakhstan: Russia is booked to send off an Iranian satellite into space on Tuesday, however Tehran dismissed fears that Moscow could involve it in the conflict against Ukraine.
Iran's "Khayyam" satellite is booked to take off from the Moscow-worked Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0552 GMT, three weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian partner Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
Iran has looked to redirect doubts that Moscow could utilize Khayyam to work on its observation of military focuses in Ukraine.
Last week, US day to day The Washington Post cited mysterious Western insight authorities as saying that Russia "plans to involve the satellite for a considerable length of time or longer" to help its conflict endeavors prior to permitting Iran to assume command.
Yet, the Iranian Space Agency said on Sunday that the Islamic republic would control the Khayyam satellite "from the very first moment."
"No third nation can get to the data" sent by the satellite because of its "encoded calculation," it said.
The reason for Khayyam is to "screen the nation's boundaries", improve rural efficiency and screen water assets and catastrophic events, the space office said.
Khayyam is being taken into space by a Soyuz-2.1b rocket, Russia's space organization Roscosmos said a week ago.
As Moscow's global disengagement develops under the heaviness of Western approvals over Ukraine, Putin is looking to turn Russia towards the Middle East, Asia and Africa and find new clients for the nation's troubled space program.