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 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 | 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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