"In cooperation with Russia, the Khayyam satellite will be launched next week from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan by a Soyuz satellite carrier," the Iranian space agency said late on Wednesday. The satellite, apparently named after 11th-12th century Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, aims to "monitor the country's borders", enhance agricultural productivity and monitor water resources and natural disasters, the agency added. Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos confirmed the launch is scheduled for Tuesday. "On August 9, 2022, a Soyuz 2.1B rocket is scheduled to be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodromeā¦ to put the Khayyam remote sensing device ordered by the Islamic Republic of Iran into orbit," it said in a statement. "The Khayyam device was designed and manufactured at enterprises that are part of the state corporation Roscosmos," it added.
