Iran's Simorgh rocket failed to place the Zafar-1 communications/imaging satellite into orbit, the country's fourth consecutive orbital launch failure since 2017. The first two stages performed normally, but the vehicle fell about 1,000 m/s short of orbital velocity after reaching a 540 km apogee.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 6 Simorgh flights
- Date and time
- 9 February 2020, 15:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Simorgh
- Builder
- IRSA
- Launch site
- Imam Khomeini Spaceport, Semnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 2020
- 10th of 114