Remember that goofy press story a few days ago about Iran putting a “life capsule” in a 75-mile orbit?
Well, I just got confirmation from the JSpOC that it was indeed nonsense:
According to our Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC): “Our sensors did not detect, identify or track any space launch from Iran of the type described. No new object originating from Iran was entered into the orbiting satellite catalogue.”
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Very Respectfully,
Rodney E. Ellison Jr., Civ
Media Operations
U.S. Strategic Command
Public Affairs Office (J020)
901 SAC Blvd. Suite 1A1
Offutt AFB, NE 68113-6020
AP and the BBC probably just bungled the Farsi translation, when it was clearly suborbital.
“AP and the BBC probably just bungled the Farsi translation, when it was clearly suborbital.”
…or maybe even sub-oceanic 😉
Does this have anything to do with that nifty flying saucer pic, released by an Iranian news agency about a week ago?
Or does it have more to do with their deep need to distract people inside Iran away from the news of what is happening elsewhere within Islam?