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2022

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Russia has launched an Iranian satellite into orbit from southern Kazakhstan. What is the name of this Iranian satellite?
A
Tayyam
B
Nuri
C
Ayyam
D
Khayyam
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The remote sensing satellite Khayyam, named after the 11th Century Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyam, was launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur spaceport into orbit, said Roscosmos .

Detailed explanation-2: -Noor satellites circle the Earth once every 90 minutes. On 10 May 2022, Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Issa Zarepour published on his Instagram a low-resolution, true-color, overhead image of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet Base in Bahrain taken from the Noor-2 satellite.

Detailed explanation-3: -The “Khayyam” satellite is first project following an initially secret agreement between Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Roscosmos space agency.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sputnik, any of a series of three artificial Earth satellites, the first of whose launch by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, inaugurated the space age.

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