The Iranian Minister of Communications announced that Soraya was placed into orbit by Qaem 100 satellite carrier in 11 minutes.[3][4] On the next day, he reported the signals and telemetry data received on the night of 20 January showed the satellite was working properly.[5]
Reports indicate that several countries, includingFrance, Britain, andGermany, expressed concern after Iran launched the Soraya satellite due to Iran's possible acquisition of long-rangeballistic technology. The United States also considered Iran to be in violation of aUN Security Council resolution.[6][7][8]
Launches are separated by dots ( • ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ). Crewed flights are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
