Zuljanah ( fa, ماهواره‌بر ذوالجناح), also spelled Zoljanah (and with a host of other spellings appearing sporadically), is an

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(SLV), made by the

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, which was unveiled on 1 February 2021, and was launched (at an unknown time before 1 February 2021, possibly 31 January 2021) into

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(apogee 500km) for testing and

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purposes. Zuljanah is able to carry satellites weighing up to 220kg into an orbit 500 kilometers above the Earth. According to Seyed Ahmad Husseini, the space spokesman of the Ministry of Defense : The Zuljanah SLV is part of a larger project called "Hazrat Fatemeh Al-Zahra" (Persian: حضرت فاطمه الزهراء). This SLV is considered to be the first indigenously designed and manufactured hybrid fuel satellite launch vehicle (solid/liquid fuel). As of June 2022, two more test flights are planned.

Design

Zuljanah measures 25.5 meters (84ft) in length, and has a mass of 52 tons (115,000lbs). The first and second stages utilize an identical 1.5m diameter solid-fuel engine with 74 tons (725kN; 163,000lbf) of thrust and a

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type 1.25m diameter liquid-fuel (

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/ N₂O₄) engine with a thrust of 3.5 tons (35 kN; 7,800 lbf) as a third stage. Zuljanah is capable of carrying a single satellite weighing up to 220kg or a

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of ten smaller 20kg

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. Zuljanah is the third civilian Satellite Launch Vehicle made in Iran, after the

and

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. It is road mobile, requires very little fueling time, and can be launched by Transporter-Erector Launchers (TELs), raising alarms from US and EU European defense analysts about its possible covert nature as Iran's first

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Launch History

Gallery

File:Zoljanah SLV first launch 05.jpg, Zuljanah being held by the servicing tower File:Zoljanah SLV first launch 08.jpg, Zuljanah lifting off from the launch pad File:Zoljanah SLV first launch 09.jpg, Zuljanah in flight

References

{{ELVs Space launch vehicles of Iran Space program of Iran

Design

Launch History

Gallery

See also

References