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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force

Iran · Government · EST. 1985

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force is a government launch operator based in Iran, founded in 1985. It has flown 6 launches under its own name. 5 succeeded and 1 failed, a success rate of 83.3%. 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 11:11:17Z

Flight record

Launch statistics

ON RECORD
Total launches6
Successful5
Failed1
Success rate83.3%
Consecutive successes3
Scheduled0
AdministratorBrigadier General: Ali Jafarabadi
Founded1985

These are launches under IRGCAF’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, IRGCAF 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 IRGCAF 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 IRGCAF

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force is the strategic missile, air, and space force within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran. It was renamed from the IRGC Air Force into the IRGC Aerospace Force in 2009.

Upcoming launches

Manifest

EMPTY

IRGCAF 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.

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force Shahed 285-3
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force Shahed 285-3Morteza Salehi · CC BY 4.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force Shahed 285-2
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force Shahed 285-2Morteza Salehi · CC BY 4.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force Shahed 285-5
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Air Force Shahed 285-5Morteza Salehi · CC BY 4.0Wikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many launches has Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force flown?
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force has flown 6 launches under its own name. 5 succeeded and 1 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
What is Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force's success rate?
83.3%. That's 5 successful flights out of 6 attempts. Its last 3 launches in a row have succeeded.
When is Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force's next launch?
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
Does Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force has flown 6 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 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force based?
Iran. Launch Library lists it as a government operator, founded in 1985.