Qaem 100

Active

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGCAF)

March 4, 2023

Description

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
  • Diameter
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Qaem 100
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Qaem 100
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    80.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force

Government
Brigadier General: Ali Jafarabadi
IRGCAF 1985

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force is the strategic missile, air, and space force within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. It was renamed from the IRGC Air Force into the IRGC Aerospace Force in 2009.

Qaem 100 | Chamran-1

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force | Iran
Shahrud Missile Test Site, Islamic Republic of Iran
Sept. 14, 2024, 5:58 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Iranian technological demonstration satellite to test out a propulsion system, with mass of 60 kg.

Low Earth Orbit
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Qaem 100 | Soraya

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force | Iran
Shahrud Missile Test Site, Islamic Republic of Iran
Jan. 20, 2024, 6:28 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Satellite of unknown purposes for the Iranian Space Organization, orbiting in an 750 km high LEO.

Low Earth Orbit
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Qaem 100 | Nahid-1

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force | Iran
Shahrud Missile Test Site, Islamic Republic of Iran
March 4, 2023, midnight
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Note: Failure officially reported by Israel and not confirmed by Iranian sources. Nahid 1 (Venus 1) is an Iranian low-earth orbit communications microsatellite. The Iranian Space Agency (ISA) has endorsed a contract with the Iranian Space Research Center to build Nahid 1.

Low Earth Orbit
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Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 11 hours ago
NROL-105
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Twelfth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office …


Ceres-2
Failure
2 days, 12 hours ago
Demo Flight
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

First test launch of Galactic Energy’s Ceres-2 rocket.


Long March 3B/E
Failure
2 days, 23 hours ago
Shijian 32
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Chinese experimental spacecraft of unknown purposes.


Ceres-1S
Success
3 days, 20 hours ago
Tianqi 37-40
Rizhao offshore launch location - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

4 small satellites for LEO Internet of Things (IoT) communication purposes.


Long March 2C
Success
4 days, 12 hours ago
AlSat 3A
Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Earth observation satellite built by China's CAST for the Algerian Space Agency.