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Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has tested an engine for a solid-fuel satellite carrier rocket, the country’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Thursday.
The report quoted Iranian General Amirali Hajizadeh, chief of the guard’s aerospace unit, as saying that the test was successful.
He said that it marked the first time Iran used a solid-fuel rocket rather than a liquid-fuel one, adding that Iran would produce lighter rocket engines in space projects.
The general said that the satellite carrier was made of a composite material instead of metal something he claimed was “cost-efficient.”
Hajizadeh spoke to a group of clerics in Qom,
Two explosive-laden drones were shot down on Tuesday by Iraq s air defenses as they approached the Ain al-Asad air base. It is the second such attempted attack this week.