Shahroud Space Center

Shahroud Space Center (Persian:پایگاه فضایی شاهرود) is a Military Spaceport under control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force (IRGCASF) located south-east of Shahroud Semnan Province, used to orbit military satellites for Iran's military space program.^[2]

Sharoud Space Center
Site information
Type	Spaceport
Operator	IRGCASF
Condition	Operational
Location
Sharoud Space Center
Coordinates	36.2009°N 55.3339°E / 36.2009; 55.3339
Site history
Built	late 1980s [1]

Overview

The launch of the Noor 1 satellite on April 22, 2020, using the Qased launch vehicle out of Shahroud space center revealed the existence of a parallel military space program run by the IRGC as opposed to Iran's civil space program run by the Iranian Space Agency (ISA).^[3]

The site features a 23-meter-tall servicing tower, a concrete launch pad 200 by 140 meters and an exhaust deflector with a length of 125 meters; Interestingly, the site features no storage facilities and fuel tanks for liquid rocket propellant, and is primarily designed to launch solid fueled launch vehicles such as the Qaem.^[4][5]

Launch history

Launch #	Date	Launch Vehicle	Payload	Outcome	Notes
1	22 April 2020	Qased	Noor 1	Success	Iran's first military satellite
2	8 March 2022	Qased	Noor 2	Success	Iran's second military satellite
3	5 November 2022[6]	Qaem 100	N/A	Success	First sub-orbital test
4	4 March 2023[7][8]	Qaem 100	Nahid-1	Failure	First Qaem 100 orbital launch attempt
5	27 September 2023[9]	Qased	Noor 3	Success	Iran's third military satellite
6	20 January 2024[10]	Qaem 100	Soraya	Success	Research satellite for the Iranian Space Agency
7	14 September 2024	Qaem 100	Chamran 1	Success

See also

• Qased (rocket)
• IRGCASF
• Semnan Space Center