Pishgam
Sign in to savePishgam (, "pioneer") is an Iranian 300-kilogramme space capsule and associated rocket ( Kavoshgar-Pishgam "Explorer-Pioneer"), which launched containing rhesus monkey and is part of a series of Iranian rocket launches containing biological cargo intended as precursors to human spaceflight.
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- Kavoshgar programme
- Kavoshgar-3
- Kavoshgar-4
- Kavoshgar-5
- Kavoshgar-6
- Kavoshgar-7
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Pishgam (, "pioneer") is an Iranian 300-kilogramme space capsule and associated rocket ( Kavoshgar-Pishgam "Explorer-Pioneer"), which launched containing rhesus monkey and is part of a series of Iranian rocket launches containing biological cargo intended as precursors to human spaceflight.
==Kavoshgar programme== The sounding rocket plus return capsule combination are capable of undertaking a twenty-minute flight and reach a height of 120 km. This is a sub-orbital flight not similar to the Safir rocket which launched Omid, a domestically-built data-processing satellite into low Earth orbit.