{"id":15333,"date":"2023-09-29T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T05:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15333"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:37:14","slug":"noor-3-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/noor-3-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Noor-3 Satellite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Noor-3 Satellite<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0<strong>imaging satellite developed by Iran.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a satellite with\u00a0<strong>potential spying capabilities<\/strong>, boosting Iran\u2019s abilities in space.<\/li>\n<li>It has been\u00a0<strong>put in an orbit 450 kilometers<\/strong> (280 miles)\u00a0<strong>above the Earth&#8217;s surface<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>launched by the three-stage Qased<\/strong>, or messenger carrier.<\/li>\n<li>The spacecraft&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>two predecessors, Noor-1 and Noor-2, launched in April 2020<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>March 2022,<\/strong> respectively,\u00a0<strong>also atop Qased rockets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Noor-1 fell back to Earth in April 2022, but Noor-2 remains operational<\/strong> and may work in concert with Noor 3 when the latter satellite comes online.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who carried out the launch?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The launch was carried out by the\u00a0<strong>aerospace arm of Iran&#8217;s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Guard operates its own space program<\/strong> parallel to Iran&#8217;s regular armed forces and\u00a0<strong>answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>launched its first satellite into space in April 2020 (Noor-1).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an imaging satellite?<\/h3>\n<p>An imaging satellite is a type of satellite designed and equipped with instruments or sensors capable of capturing images of the Earth&#8217;s surface or celestial objects from space. These satellites are used for various purposes, including remote sensing, Earth observation, scientific research, and military reconnaissance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/world\/iran-launches-imaging-satellite-noor-3-into-orbit-450-km-above-earths-surface\/cid\/1969557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Iran claims launch of imaging satellite Noor-3 into orbit 450km above Earth&#8217;s surface<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noor-3 Satellite is an imaging satellite developed by Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}