Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Sina-1 (Persian: سینا ۱) is the first Iranian artificial satellite launched at 6:52 UTC October 28 2005 on board a Cosmos-3M Russian launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The rocket was also carrying a Russian military Mozhayets-5 satellite a Chinese China-DMC a British Topsat a European Space Agency SSETI Express a Norwegian nCube a German UWE-1 and a Japanese XI-V.