Iran to send satellite into orbit  Tehran, Sep 10: Iran plans to
send its indigenously-designed satellite Sharifsat into orbit in
the near future, a media report said Tuesday.  More than 100
students, alumni, and academics of the university have worked to
design and manufacture the Sharifsat satellite, which weighs
less than 50 kg, reported Iran’s Mehr news agency citing Reza
Roosta-Azad, the chancellor of Sharif University of Technology.
The chancellor said the construction of the Sharifsat satellite
has been completed and it is in line to be launched by the
Iranian Space Agency aboard the domestically made Safir B-1
carrier.  Roosta-Azad added that the satellite’s main task is to
take coloured images and transmit them to Earth.