Iran+Satellite

February 10, 2009 Iran Satellite – “Omid ” – Launched Feb. 3 __ Oh it’s bad __ None of this is good news, especially considering Iran’s long-standing hostility toward the United States, sponsorship of terrorism, involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, and regional great power ambitions. (Family Security Matters, Feb 9) Western states, which fear that the new Iranian technologies will be used to create long-range nuclear missiles (Kyiv Post, Feb. 9) Satellites being tracked. It is moving, and it was over the South Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 11(Google is tracking it: [] ) Possible  intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM ) development. Technology advances means potential future of putting ballistic missile on satellite and aim at countries (US, Europe, Isreal, etc.) Like in 1990 South Korea. (Family Security Matters, Feb 9) was also verified by [|NASA] the following day as a success ( Wikipedia, but can’t find it at NASA), so did __ Not really all that bad __ "We (the Ukrainian space monitoring service) can't officially find this satellite and its coordinates," head of National Space Agency of Ukraine Yuriy Alekseev said on a press conference in Kyiv ( Kyiv Post, Feb. 9) Russia already sent Iran ’s first Satellite into space in 2005 The launch, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of the [|Iranian Revolution] and was supervised by [|President] [|Mahmoud Ahmadinejad], was also verified by [|NASA] the following day as a success Foreign minister [|Manouchehr Mottaki] said the satellite was launched to "meet the needs of the country" and is "purely for peaceful purposes". [|[] (Wikipedia) US military sources noted that the launch was a cause for concern, but said that it did not threaten the balance of power in the region(Wikipedia) The [|New York Times] claim’s that launching Omid satellite was mainly a symbolic accomplishment because the satellite was very small, but the action had a number of potential military implications ( 25kg satellite, not a 100kg) (Kyiv Post and Wikipedia)