Recovering Iran’s NOUR 01 ‘Military Satellite’
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I think it would achieve more to help Iran with payloads than get snitty about a cubesat.
And say they did get high resolution imaging into space and started looking at US or Israeli or Saudi military and strategic assets.. isn't that kind of normal? Might it not actually help pacify things by giving them incontrovertible evidence there isn't a risk of invasion?
I'm glad I don't work for cubesatkit.com. The principal(s) of that company are about to have a very bad time.
Nothing in the story really related to this risk. But, you are probably right it's the latent fear. The ban only drives Iran closer to Russia. Why buy US tech when you can cut out the middleman and go to the same source the US does for engines? (I know they don't buy much any more but they did for a while, and presumably the Iranians can operate a Russian engine as well as the Americans can)
The ban is about delay, not the absolute of prevention. That much is working. Iran is having to develop technology locally as opposed to simply importing it. Without any restrictions, Iran would simply purchase ICBMs and deploy them in a matter of weeks.
In addition, by increasing the cost of developing these systems, you force hostile (or non-friendly) governments to split their resources. Every bit of funding that went into building a rocket is a bit of funding that doesn't go to Quds Force.
Because that went so well the last time, after all.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...
Yeah, and isn't taking steps to oppose them every step of the way normal as well? We (america & allies) have to protect our interests.
The terminology in this hobby confused me a little bit, because it wasn't what I expected. From the context it seems that "recovery" means locating, identifying, and capturing data from the satellite.
My path started when I bought one of the RTL-SDR bundles from Nooelec (https://www.nooelec.com/store/). It came with four different antennae and some adapters to connect it to your own antenna.
I spent some time reconstructing projects that people had posted on rtl-sdr.com (https://www.rtl-sdr.com/). I installed Gnuradio companion (and various Gnuradio bits) and built an FM receiver as well as a receiver that could see the signals coming from a wireless light switch.
I decided I wanted to transmit too so I bought a HackRF-one (https://www.nooelec.com/store/hackrf.html). It covers way more spectrum than the RTL-SDR and it has great support in a lot of packages. What I wasn't able to do very successfully with it was look at cellular signals so when Crowd Supply ran a campaign for the Lime SDR (https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr) I got one of those. I recreated the cell basestation setup that the Myriad folks did using an old GSM phone I had in my drawer (marked "Cingular" :-))
I realized I wanted to be able to send more complex things at different frequencies so I took a detour and studied for, and received, my Amateur Radio "Extra" license (AI6ZR). Which allows me to transmit at much higher powers on many more bands.
There was a company near me that was making SDRs and they needed software help, I offered to help if they would let me use their very well equipped lab of RF gear. That gave me both access to and training on "real" RF gear and helped me understand what would be useful and what wasn't needed in my own explorations. Then I started haunting ebay, swap meets, and various auction sites to track down the gear I was missing. (A spectrum analyzer, a vector signal generator, and a vector network analyzer).
Bottom line, this rabbit hole just keeps going and going and going ...
(I used Smith charts a couple of times in school, but did not inhale.)
P.S.
Just hit search for 'Amateur Radio "Extra" license curriculum', and it's impressively comprehensive, at least from the first hit, a nice PDF at http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Instructor%20resources/Tiley,...
(it features Smith charts at page 109, and at 118 ends with a full page blank chart :)
Looking this up we find.
> The IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States
Really seriously?
https://www.google.com/search?q=iran+statements+annihilation...
https://www.google.com/search?q=iran+statements+death+to+Ame...
So is it already risky, to say, that most statements, "calling for annihiliation" of israel, are not so drastic, when looked upon closer?
So, for example the famous quote from former president Ahmadinejad, about wiping israel off the map:
" Ahmadinejad was quoting the Ayatollah Khomeini in the specific speech under discussion: what he said was that "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time." No state action is envisaged in this lament; it denotes a spiritual wish, whereas the erroneous translation – "wipe Israel off the map" – suggests a military threat. There is a huge chasm between the correct and the incorrect translations. The notion that Iran can "wipe out" U.S.-backed, nuclear-armed Israel is ludicrous."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Isra...
That still leaves plenty of other statements, though and support of hamas, etc. who are less diplomatic in their words, but on the other side, you have lots of direct war threats from US and Israel, too, who are indeed nuclear armed. So who started it?
Complicated of course. And I don't really have much sympathy for the mullahs, but the iranian people I met, were nice ones. And I doubt collective punishments from the outside, like the ban on space tech, are helping them get rid of the idiots. It just brings them closer together.
Here's an amusing (albeit ~neutral) summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9-H5C_4UDU
The American romcom "Down with love" is translated in Persian as "Death to love" [2]
[1] https://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/death-to-israel-death-to-tr...
[2] https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%AF_%D8%A8%D8%B...
https://militarybases.com/overseas/bahrain/
Both are Sunni monarchies, the House of Saud and the House of Khalifa. Both are oil and gas economies. Both are geopolitical rivals of Iran. Both have US military presences.
The designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization is probably for the purposes of levying sanctions – this is undoubtedly because Iran opposes the US's strategic interests in the region such as its support of (and alliance with) Israel, Turkey‡, and Saudi Arabia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/world/middleeast/trump-ir...
https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/
> Iran’s new military satellite, NOUR 01, most interesting fact may not be that it resembles a college engineering experiment but rather that it may have a connection to a Mexican military payload launched quietly from New Zealand last year.
Arguably the most interesting fact about Noor (this is the spelling that Wikipedia uses† it's Farsi for 'light') is that with the launch Iran became one of a handful of nations that has placed military tech into space with its own launch platform.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/iran-us-satell...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_orbital_laun...
“While a number of countries have built satellites, as of 2019, eleven countries have had the capability to send objects into orbit using their own launch vehicles.” (Iran is listed as the 9th such country to do so.)
This implications of this launcher technology should be obvious to anyone.
‡ This relationship is admittedly strained.
I'm pretty sure Mexico isn't out there developing ballistic missiles and then selling them to other countries in violation of a treaty Mexico signed. That's the actual problem with this particular launch.
Not to say it isn't military, but could be even just a military experiment or something.
Literally could be anything. Militaries around the world run navigation (i.e. GPS) and weather satellites.