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Iranian Space Agency

Iran · Government · EST. 2004

Iranian Space Agency is a government launch operator based in Iran, founded in 2004. It has flown 15 launches under its own name. 6 succeeded and 9 failed, a success rate of 40.0%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.

SourceLAUNCH LIBRARY 2
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Page generated2026-11-11 11:12:12Z

Flight record

Launch statistics

ON RECORD
Total launches15
Successful6
Failed9
Success rate40.0%
Consecutive successes2
Scheduled0
AdministratorHassan Salarieh
Founded2004

These are launches under ISA’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.

Operator or customer

An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, ISA is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.

Manifest role

NONE FILED
Flying as operator0
Named as customer0
Window reaches2039-12-31 00:00:00Z
Scheduled (register total)0

No scheduled flight names ISA with someone else flying it.

How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.

About ISA

The Iranian Space Agency is Iran's governmental space agency. Iran became an orbital-launch-capable nation in 2009. Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which was set up in 1958.

Upcoming launches

Manifest

EMPTY

ISA has nothing on the schedule we can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. Its missions show up here once a launch date is published.

All upcoming launches

The label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Dasht-e Kavir
Dasht-e KavirUSGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch. · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗
Omid 0650
Omid 0650Mardetanha · CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
Omid 0653
Omid 0653Mardetanha · CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many launches has Iranian Space Agency flown?
Iranian Space Agency has flown 15 launches under its own name. 6 succeeded and 9 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
What is Iranian Space Agency's success rate?
40.0%. That's 6 successful flights out of 15 attempts. Its last 2 launches in a row have succeeded.
When is Iranian Space Agency's next launch?
Iranian Space Agency has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
Does Iranian Space Agency fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
Iranian Space Agency has flown 15 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
Where is Iranian Space Agency based?
Iran. Launch Library lists it as a government operator, founded in 2004.