Safir-1B

Safir-1B (Navid)
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Safir is an iranian space launcher based on the Kavoshgar-1 sounding rocket, which is a modification of the Shahab-3 IRBM.

The Safir-1A is a two stage vehicle with a stretched Shahab-3 (Nodong type) based first stage, a liquid fueled second stage with two engines. Safir-1A is a slightly improved version. The Safir-1B introduced an new fuel combination for higher thrust of stage one.

Possibly a small solid fuel third stage might be added to improve performance in future versions.

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Version	Stage 1	Stage 2
Safir-1B	Shahab-3 (impr. str.) / ?	Stage 2 / 2 × ?

Performance (kg)	LEO	LPEO	SSO	GTO	GEO	MolO	IP
Safir-1B	65		-	-	-	-	-

No:             Type          Serial          Date            LS    Payload

 4      1       Safir-1B      ERS.2002        03.02.2012      Sem   Navid
 5      2       Safir-1B      .               23.05.2012 ? F  Sem   Fajr ?
 6      3       Safir-1B      .               22.09.2012 ? F  Sem   Fajr ?
 7      4       Safir-1B      .               17.02.2013 ? F  Sem   Fajr ?


Planned: 

 x      x       Safir-1B      .               xx.xx.2013      Sem   Sharif-Sat
 

Launch Sites:

Sem = Semnan

Failures:

Flight 5: The launch date has not yet been confirmed
Flight 6: On pad explosion, between 22.09.2012 and 25.10.2012