2017 · Iranian Space Agency
Simorgh Launch
failure
First test flight of the Simorgh rocket, intended to reach orbit. Pentagon officials confirmed the launch occurred at around 9:30 UTC on Thursday and did not place a satellite in orbit.
Overview
- Date / time
- July 27, 2017 at 09:30 AM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Imam Khomeini Spaceport
- Mission
- Classified
- Mission type
- Classified
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit
FailureFailure due to a problem with the second stage, which failed after 20 seconds of powered flight (of planned 300 seconds).