Iranian Space Agency

Iranian Space Agency
(ISA)

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Agency overview
Abbreviation	ISA
Formed	1 February 2004; 20 years ago (2004-02-01)
Type	Space agency
Headquarters	Tehran, Mahdasht, Shahrud, Qom
Administrator	Hassan Salarieh
Primary spaceport	Imam Khomeini Spaceport
Owner	Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Iran
Annual budget	$4.6 million (FY 2017)[1]
Website	www.isa.ir

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The Iranian Space Agency (ISA, Persian: سازمان فضایی ایران Sāzmān-e Fazāi-ye Irān) is Iran's governmental space agency. The Iranian Space Research Center and Iranian Space Agency are the main organizations carrying space research and operations in Iran . Iran became an orbital-launch-capable nation in 2009.^[2] Iran is one of the 24 founding members of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), which was set up on 13 December 1958.^{[citation needed]}