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Launch Vehicles
Vehicle family profile

Simorgh

سیمرغ

Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.

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Variants
1
Canonical variants linked to this family.
Historical missions
6
Missions in the public mission table with actual launch dates.
Peak listed capacity
250 kg
Maximum payload capacity across listed variants and orbits.

Launch Cadence

Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.

YearHistorical missionsForecast launches
201910
202010
202120
202420
202601
202701
202801
202901
203001
203101
203201
203301
203401
203501
203601
203701
203801

Performance Specs

Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.

VariantOrbitCapacityAltitudeInclinationSource
Simorgh
سیمرغ
LEO250 kg500 kmUnknownCSIS Missile Threat Simorgh profile

Recent Missions

Latest launched missions using variants in this family.

MissionVariantLaunch
Sahman-1
Simorgh
سیمرغ
Dec 6, 2024
Mehda Mission
Simorgh
سیمرغ
Jan 28, 2024
Launch 2021-F11
Simorgh
سیمرغ
Dec 30, 2021
Launch 2021-F03

Variants

Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.

VariantStagesMissionsStatus
Simorgh
سیمرغ
Not stated6Active
203901
204001
204101

Forecast Location Split

1 launch location represented.

YearLocationLaunchesConfidenceBasis
2026Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2027Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2028Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2029Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2030Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2031Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2032Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2033Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2034Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2035Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2036Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2037Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2038Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2039Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2040Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
2041Imam Khomeini Spaceport125%Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.
Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2026 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2027 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2028 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2029 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2030 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2031 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Simorgh
سیمرغ
Jun 12, 2021
Launch 2020-F01
Simorgh
سیمرغ
Feb 9, 2020
Launch 2019-F01
Simorgh
سیمرغ
Jan 15, 2019

Forecasted Missions

Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.

MissionVariantAnnounced

No forecasted missions

No upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family.

Track
Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2032 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2033 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2034 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2035 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2036 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Imam Khomeini Spaceport
2037 · 25% confidence
1

Catalog-completeness placeholder for active Simorgh family; not used by latest forecast capacity snapshot.

Mentions
4
All verified mentions of this launch vehicle family in source documents.
0.0-5.0
Actions

Iran plans to launch a second model of its Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite using the domestically developed Simorgh rocket.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Aug 4, 2025Middle East Space Roundup: 28 July to 3 August 2025

Iran revealed the larger two-stage Simorgh vehicle and launched it in July 2017 and January 2019 without successfully placing a satellite into orbit.

CapabilityValue 4.0Nov 19, 2019Defense intelligence report highlights Iran’s advances in space technology

In 2010 Iran unveiled the Simorgh three-stage rocket designed to carry 150 kg to low Earth orbit.

CapabilityPlanValue 4.0Sep 26, 2019Top secret Twitter: How trolling Iran with classified satellite imagery could backfire on the U.S.

The Simorgh rocket failed to reach orbit in three attempts since 2016, with the most recent failure occurring in January (prior to September 2019).

GeneralPlanValue 2.8Sep 26, 2019Top secret Twitter: How trolling Iran with classified satellite imagery could backfire on the U.S.