Azerbaijan, Baku, May 2 / Trend M. Moezzi /
The Iranian Space Agency (ISA) is scheduled to launch its Fajr satellite into orbit by late June, and hopes to send living organisms into space within three months.
Working in conjunction with the Institute for Space Systems, the ISA is building a satellite called Nahid which is on this year's launch list too, the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) quoted the space agency's chief as saying.
If the Simorgh satellite launcher, currently being built by Iran's Ministry of Defense, can be readied with several times greater thrust power, then the space agency can send two more satellites this year, ISA chief Hamid Fazeli said .
In late summer 2011, Iran's attempt to send a monkey into space failed. The country's space program is scheduled to send a man into space by 2020.