March 17, 2023
Iran’s Nour-2 satellite marked its first anniversary in orbit March 8. Nour-2 is the only fully-functioning satellite the regime has been able to orbit in at least 16 tries over the last 14 years. The government managed to put five other satellites in orbit, but four of them fell to earth within 80 says and the fifth stayed in orbit for two years but was tumbling all that time so it couldn’t take any pictures of the earth.