News Iran launches monkey into space (suborbital)

well it doesn't sound as cool as "...sends a monkey into sub-orbit" that doesn't sound like a news item.
 
statickid said:
well it doesn't sound as cool as "...sends a monkey into sub-orbit" that doesn't sound like a news item.
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"...sends a monkey into space"

And I don't understand the whole "done already" stuff. Yes, it was done by someone fifty years ago, but not by Iran. It's a step towards manned spaceflight, which is a quite special thing since only three nations achieved to put men in space. There are new players in the game of spaceflight and the path of Iran, India or SpaceX is surely interesting, although NASA done it already.
 
Alfastar said:
Uhhh...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...8e79ea-6ec2-11e2-b35a-0ee56f0518d2_story.html

How did you known that already? :lol:
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Maybe it isn't a bad idea. He might change his "world view"...

I indeed believe that impressions of a flight into space can change minds.

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MattBaker said:
There are new players in the game of spaceflight and the path of Iran, India or SpaceX is surely interesting, although NASA done it already.
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Yes. But I think not as interesting as the very first flight of Russia and the USA. Nobody knew if it would work that well. Today we know it can be done, and, given time, will be done by more nations and companies. So it's not really as much surprising.
 
Did they already find an explanation, why they launched a different monkey, than they retrieved after landing?
 
Second monkey sent!

Here's the cute fellow:
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The guy is called Fargam:
http://www.irna.ir/en/News/80950169/Art_&_Culture/Second_monkey_sent_into_space
 
Still, that's closer of a sounding rocket than from Redstone/Mercury...
 
N_Molson said:
Still, that's closer of a sounding rocket than from Redstone/Mercury...
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Come on, what else should Iran do?

KSP has not yet been translated into Persian.
 
The reports that I've seen are inaccurate, yes.
It might be a translation problem, if the word for "space" is being translated into "orbit". Only someone familiar with the original language can answer that.

Laika was not intended to return, it was a one way trip.

As for the actual flight, no question that it was a suborbital flight, using a sounding rocket, with a live subject in a small retrievable capsule that ejects at apogee. I doubt the scientific return, but if you don't have fancy sensors (or if they are heavy), the monkey might be lighter and serve the same purpose. It it lives then you know that acceleration, temperature, atmosphere, etc, are all within parameters.
 
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MattBaker said:
If I jump I'm in an orbit, too. It just has a pretty high eccentricity and a periapse a few thousand kilometers below the ground.
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Yeah, but couple that with the inanity I had to hear during Felix Baumgartner's jump, such as "why are we spending millions on rockets when we could reach the ISS on a balloon" (and before you ask, the journalist was COMPLETELY SERIOUS) and you can be justified in having this warm, fuzzy murderous feeling growing inside you, fueling red-raging thoughts of mayhem and having you aching to rip the throat of those idiot TV persons with your own teeth.

/berserk

Well, I will write them a strong letter, by Jove! Cup of tea?
 
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