By Parviz Tarikhi

Provides an in depth examine the occasions and regulations surrounding the Iranian area endeavor.

For those that see the fashion of growth and circulate of the Iranian house exercise from the surface, it may be obscure what is going on behind the curtain. despite the fact that, for person who observes those occasions firsthand, they tackle a truly diversified which means. during this ebook, the writer brings new and diversified profiles of Iran’s house recreation to gentle. Iran claims to be the 9th best kingdom on the earth able to production satellites and launching them, plans to land an astronaut at the Moon inside of a decade, and says its personal president plans to be the 1st Iranian astronaut to go back and forth into area. the writer explains during this publication that no longer all of those claims are relatively as they appear. as well as technical motives, the booklet additionally contains ancient, felony, social and cultural features of Iran’s house application in addition. it's the author’s target to create a tangible feeling of Iran’s house recreation for the readers.

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33 Nevertheless, the structure and role of policy-making bodies for the development of aerospace in recent decades were altered as a result of expanding the domain of aerospace in Iran from aeronautics to astronautics. Those policy-makers are the Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone (MPTT) that became the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in 2003, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization (IRIB), and the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology (MSRT) that cooperated for telecommunications and broadcasting purposes, as well as various other applications.

It is responsible for exercising frequency-spectrum management and protecting the national radio rights at both the regional and international levels; centralizing policy-making; writing regulations and standards and supervising their implementation in different areas of post, communications and telecommunications such as common and new services in post, telecommunications, space communications, radio communications, data transmission, sound and picture transmission, remote sensing and computer communications; developing a conducive environment for communications, testing, information processing and remote sensing methods, and supporting them; and also making policy for the development of the appropriate communications facilities and services, in line with the state-of-the-art in scientific, experimental and information technology.

61 Electronic Components Industries (ECI) Electronic Components Industries was founded in 1976 and has two facilities, one in Shiraz and the other in Tehran. 62 40 From air into space: formation of infrastructures Isfahan Optics Industries (IOI) Isfahan Optics Industries was founded in 1987 to create a vigorous and modern optics industry. The employment of highly qualified engineers and state-of-the art equipment has made it one of the most capable industries in Iran. 63 Iran Electronics Research Center (IERC) The Iran Electronics Research Center was founded in 1997 as a scientific, educational and research institute.

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