Al Jazeera: Iran shows missile, launches satellite which fails to reach orbit
Moves come days before Islamic Revolution anniversary, routinely used by Iran to display tech advances for armed forces.
In the space of a few hours on Sunday, Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile and launched a domestically-built satellite - which failed, however, to reach orbit.
The launch of the satellite happened at 7:15pm local time at Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's Semnan province, some 230km (145 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran. State television said, however, that a Simorgh rocket could not put the Zafar 1 communications satellite into orbit due to a low speed.
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