President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the skies can be conquered by Iranian scientists. 

He made the remarks while addressing a ceremony to unveil several new satellites and various space technology achievements.

President Ahmadinejad who was speaking on the occasion of the National Space Technology Day, praised significant space achievements by the Iranian scientists in the past few years.

Lauding the self-belief and self-sufficiency of the Iranian researchers and scientists, he announced that many parts of the space satellites are fully produced inside the country.

He said that Iran’s space achievements can be considered as good lessons for other nations.

President Ahmadinejad voiced the government’s support for various aerospace activities, stressing that all efforts should be made to prepare the grounds for further development in that field.

Iran test-fired a domestically made satellite-carrier rocket on Wednesday.

The Kavoshgar-3 (Explorer-3) rocket was launched during a ceremony held to commemorate the 31st victory anniversary of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

IRI scientists launched on Wednesday a biological capsule, mounted on a satellite rocket, into orbit.

Kavoshgar 3 satellite is outfitted with structural subsystems, biological compartment, nourishment gear, telemetry data systems, live shot and relay system, flight computer, environmental monitoring system and recovery system.

It has been designed to cover a checklist of activities, including telemetry of performance during launch, live imagery and relay for mobile stations on the Earth, space mission control, segregation control, biological capsule on-demand display, data collection operation and subsystem check.

Previous generations of the satellite, titled Kavoshgar 1 and 2, have already undergone a successful launch operation.