Iran satellite launch

There is a possibility that Iran's Mesbah-2 satellite, slated for launch early 2010, could operate on frequencies allocated to the Amateur Satellite Service.

A report at http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mesbah2.htm indicates that the original Mesbah satellite, lost in a 2005 launch failure, was to have operated on Amateur Satellite Service frequencies.

It was recently reported that Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Reza Taqipour, has said that the Mesbah (Lantern) satellite has successfully completed pre-launch tests and is now ready for take off.

Mesbah project - Iranian scientists braced for another spaceshot
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=108455
&sectionid=351020101

The Mesbah Project
http://www.itrc.ac.ir/ist2005/Keynote/K5/MESBAH_Conf.pdf

YouTube - Mesbah Satellite
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eimSoT1xh8

Iranian Space Agency (ISA) - Google English
(Note the Iranian calender year ends late March and is 621, or 622, years behind)
http://tinyurl.com/IranISA

Iran readies Safir launch with ICBM implications
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0910/18iran/