Iran's first test flight of the Safir carrier rocket, meant to validate technology ahead of the Omid satellite launch, failed when the second-stage engine malfunctioned around 150 km altitude, despite initial Iranian claims that a dummy payload had reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 Safir flights
- Date and time
- 16 August 2008, 19:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Safir
- Builder
- IRSA
- Launch site
- Safir Launch Pad, Semnan Space Center, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Payload
- Test Flight
- Launches in 2008
- 40th of 69