Satellite Photos Show Iranian Rocket Explosion On Launch Pad

This annotated satellite image shows a fire at the rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province on Thursday morning

Daily Mail: Iranian space rocket 'blows up' and the smouldering remains are pictured on the launch pad after failed attempt to launch satellite

* Satellite images appear to show the smoking remains of the rocket in the desert
* Explosion took place on Thursday morning at Imam Khomeini Space Center
* Iran had been planning the launch of its Nahid-1 satellite in the coming days

An Iranian space rocket blew up today according to satellite images of its smouldering remains on a launch pad in the desert.

The pictures were taken on Thursday morning over the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Semnan province, and suggest the Islamic Republic suffered its third failed launch this year alone.

State media and officials did not immediately acknowledge the incident at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province.

However, satellite images by Planet Labs Inc. showed a black plume of smoke rising above a launch pad there, with what appeared to be the charred remains of a rocket and its launch stand. In previous days, satellite images had shown officials there repainted the launch pad blue.

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