[Eleutheria5]

Houston, we have a problem.

[RinaseaofDs]

Actually, Houston, we have another contractor.

The Russians are having their issues getting our people off the ISS. Perhaps the Iranians care to bid on getting US Astronauts out of space, since the most powerful nation on earth doesn’t do that any more.

[Eleutheria5]

Say. They launched this on Friday. What would Mad Mo say?

[21twelve]

Only stays up for a few months?

Sounds like a decent plot for a movie. A rougue country sends 3-4 of these up over the course of a few weeks, with lifespans of a few months.

Once they are all up, tell the world that unless we are paid $2 billion for each one the nukes on them will stay armed. And let the chips fall where they may. (Would need to be a movie though, as I imagine they would burn up on reentry anyway.)

[AZLiberty]

Iran also has plans to launch monkey into space, much as the United States did in the 1960's, by 2020.

I vote they send Ahmadinejad instead.

[Prospero]

It's strange how ignorant pundits talk about the Persians "working on a missile capable of reaching the East Coast of the U.S." when they've demonstrated a third time, now, the capability of putting a payload into low Earth orbit.

Targeting will continue to be a problem of course, though that's less of a concern when the payload is a nuclear warhead (the more powerful the less the problem) - but the capacity for reaching low Earth orbit is the capacity for placing a payload anywhere on the planet.

The differences between those skills amount to quibbling.

[Vaquero]

Rocket with Crescent payload ready to launch...

Israel needs to hurry up....

[FES0844]

Iran also has plans to launch monkey into space...

PETA will stop them!

[ILS21R]

Iran's state news agency IRNA said the satellite was launched Friday. It is reportedly designed to collect data on weather conditions and monitor for natural disasters.

They must not have internet over there.

[rbg81]

None have had a life-span of much more than a month.

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Doesn’t sound too impressive. Of course, an EMP device only has to stay up for a few orbits.

[manc]

er anyone want to explain why Panetta is warning and helping Iran by saying Israel might attack in the spring?

I can’;t see Israel happy that their plans for an attack be put out there so Europe, the UN and others can put pressure on Israel and if Israel does do this then I hope Israel does not warn this socialist muslim lover in the white house until 1 minute.
Infact forget that Israel should attack with no warning to America right on the day he and his wanna be Queen go on yet another all expense vacation with all of big bums family

[backwoods-engineer]

Iran moves ever closer to being able to loft a large uranium nuke to 250 miles to pop us with an EMP.

It would be TEOTWAWKI.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“It is reportedly designed to collect data on weather conditions and monitor for natural disasters. “

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If I recall from various Area 51 documentaries, that’s pretty much exactly what we said about the U2 when it was being developed...

[Flint]

To monitor weather and natural disasters wouldn’t it be far less expensive to turn on the TV?

[American in Israel]

110 pound in orbit? Plenty enough for an H-Bomb. Let me guess they are building ICBM’s for electrical power too...