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Shahab 1

Missile · Iran

Original archive entry. The text, images and links below are kept as they were written.

Initial version of the Iranian Shahab ballistic missile, based on the R-17 Scud, via a North Korean derivative. Believed to have been tested in 1988.

Country
Iran

Chronology

26 events

1985 Mar

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Weapon - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1985 Mar

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Weapon - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1985 Mar

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Weapon - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1985 Mar

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Weapon - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1985 Mar

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Weapon - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1985 Mar

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Weapon - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1985 March 12

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Kirkuk - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1985 March 14

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Baghdad - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1994 November 6

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Ashraf - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1994 November 6

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Ashraf - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1994 November 6

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Ashraf - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1999 June 10

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Ashraf - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1999 June 10

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Ashraf - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1999 June 10

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Ashraf - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1999 November 2

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Habib - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1999 November 2

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Habib - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

1999 November 2

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs Camp Habib - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

2001 April 18

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs MKO camps - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

2001 April 18

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs MKO camps - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

2001 April 18

Launch Site: Kermanshah. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • vs MKO camps - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi).

2009 September 27

Launch Complex: Damghan. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Shahab RV - . Mass: 100 kg (220 lb). Nation: Iran. Operational test.

2011 June 28

Launch Site: Semnan. Launch Complex: Damghan. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Shahab RV - . Nation: Iran. Operational test..

2011 June 28

Launch Site: Semnan. Launch Complex: Damghan. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Shahab RV - . Nation: Iran. Operational test..

2012 July 3

Launch Site: Semnan. Launch Complex: Damghan. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Shahab RV - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi). Exercise mission..

2013 December 14

Launch Site: Semnan. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Kavoshgar Pazhuhesh - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 120 km (70 mi).

    Eighth in Kavoshgar series of biology missions; Capsule D recovery test. Launched from the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Semnan province on a 120 km suborbital flight, carrying a 3 kg, 3 year old rhesus monkey named Fargam. This was the fourth Iranian monkey in space, and the second to return successfully following the Kavoshgar Pisgham ('Pioneer Probe') mission in January 2013. The use of a liquid fuel missile provided gentler acceleration than the small solid propellant sounding rockets used for earlier experiments. The Kavoshgar Pazhuhesh ('Research Probe') flight was the first 'Class D' mission of the Kavoshgar series. The payload was developed by the Institute of Astronautical Systems, which I believe is part of the Aerospace Research Institute in Tehran.

2016 March 8

Launch Site: Qom. LV Family: R-11. Launch Vehicle: Shahab 1.
  • Shahab RV - . Nation: Iran. Apogee: 100 km (60 mi). Test mission. Impacted in Qom Desert, Iran..