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The second activity of joint science outreach project between Space Research Labratory and Mahani Observatory is launched in from of student summer activity in Astronomy classes of summer shcool in Shahid Mahdavi educational complex in July 2020. Respect to this project, students exposed to construction manual of a simple telescope, to enhance their day and night observational experiences. at the end of summer, the results will be assesssed in [...]

SRL student team has passed all the Engineering Models’ test of Nasir-1 CubeSat. In spite of Covid-19 limitations, and semester final exams, team has been working hard 😓 for two last weeks to overcome all the “Morphies law” surprises. Iranian Space Agency’s experts who followed the process in site confirmed tests results. According to theirs announcement K.N.Toosi University’s CubeSat team is the first team among the 3 finalists teams [...]

Nasir-1 CubeSat Engineering Model ongoing tests by student 👩‍🎓&👨‍🎓 team. According to the project time line Nasir-1 Engineering Model EM functional tests has to be finish by the end of June 2020. CubeSat team is working hard 😓 nowadays to overcome this milestone. Iranian Space Agency (ISA) experts will be with us in next Sunday and Saturday. Wish them all good luck 🍀!

The competition-based event "Satellite Constellation Design Challenge" with the support of the Iranian Space Agency and the Iranian Space Research Center, was held from October 2019 to May 2020 With a focus on Earth monitoring and observation, communication network and local navigation. 16 teams from different universities from all over the country participated in the competition which was hold in the conceptual design level. The team of Toosi Constellation [...]

The closing ceremony of the competition-based event "Satellite Constellation Design Challenge" with the support of the Iranian Space Agency and the Iranian Space Research Center, with the participation of 16 teams from different universities will be held as a webinar. the Toosi Constellation Team will present their project within this ceremony, which is "Conceptual Design of a Satellite constellation toward the creation of a Smart Maritime communication Network." The [...]

The 18th International Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society was held in Amirkabir University of Technology Feb.2020 and Mr. Alireza Amirkhani presented his paper in 4 February 2020 that the title was "Space Bus in GEO".

Specific limitations due to Covid-19 Pandemic leads us to conduct series of knowledge based and fun activities for students in Space Research Laboratory. Our outreach branch is a cooperation with Mahani observatory and Astronomy complex in Tehran, so we decided to execute the project at this center. Our first proposed activity is “Paper-Straw Rocket”. It is a simple made, paper rocket that can be launched from a soda straw [...]

on January 11, 2020, Signing a memorandum of cooperation between Space Research Laboratory and Mahani Observatory. From the first one of the major goals of SRL was "IRAN Future Space Development".Through the past decade  different activities and projects has been provided by SRL teams. We tried to help school students at every level of education, know space and think about it's benefits for our planet. It seems [...]

SSS-1 ADCS Em test has been provided by SRL team in Beihang University Beijing/China. SRL em version has passed all the planed test successfully.

Second group of SRL Student Small Satellite(SSS) projects’ team leave Tehran to Beijing today. SRL team together with Beihang Uni. are going to provide SSS-1 ADCS EM test within next 2 weeks. Wish them Good Luck

The Head of Iranian Space Agency, Dr. Morteza Barari visits space research lab on the occasion of World Space Week 2019

Title: Developing a sample cubesat with a magnetic-based control system By: Zeinab Soltani Supervisor: Dr. Mehran Mirshams Chairmen: Dr. Masoud Ebrahimi (Tarbiat Modares University), Dr. Morteza Tayefi (K. N. Toosi University of Technology) September 16, 2019 Abstract: According to the high cost of manufacturing and launching a satellite, confirming the accurate functionality of each subsystem is extremely momentous. So, many tests are supposed to be done to [...]

Title: Design and Implementation of Control Modes for Student Micro Satellite By: Niki Sajjad Supervisor: Dr. Mehran Mirshams Adviser: Mr. Shahrokh Jalilian Chairman: Dr. Shabnam Yazdani (Iranian Space Agency), Dr. Morteza Tayefi (K. N. Toosi University of Technology) September 14, 2019 Abstract: This thesis represents design, analysis and performance verification test of student microsatellite Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem (ADCS). ADCS design and implementation procedure contains several various [...]

The Critical Design Review (CDR) Meeting of The APSCO Student Small Satellite (SSS) Project August 21-29, Beijing, China More info on APSCO site

ADCS Hands-on Training workshop on The Third Summer Camp of APSCO Student Small Satellite (SSS) Project has Successfully Completed. Read More More info on APSCO site

The 9th International Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST) 2019 conference was held in Istanbul 11-14 June, and Mr. Parsa Abbasrezaei present his paper 13th June which was about “Conceptual GEO Telecommunication All-electric Design Base on Statistical Model.”

School space lab team and The IAU Einstein Schools team from SRL Participated in the Astronomy Day in Mahani Observatory at Shahid Mahdavi Educational Complex. The vacuum simulator and the cubesat ADCS simulator were exhibited for the general public

A group of students from the Space Research Laboratory gathered at the Space Research Laboratory on Sunday May 15th to congratulate Professor Dr. Mehran Mirshams.

Happy Persian New Year

Nasir 1 the first CubeSat K. N. Toosi University of Technology which have been design and develop by student teams of SRL, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Faculty of Electrical Engineering has been shown in the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology head quarter. Read More

The Opening ceremony of the first space School Lab held in Amirkabir Institute in Ministry of Education. This Lab has been design, develop and established by Space Research Lab., K. N. Toosi University of Technology and has been supported by Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology (Presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran)

Starting the educational process of the first school space laboratory at the Amirkabir research center

Paper Presentation by: Ms. Sara Mirshekari Authors: Sara Mirshekari, Ehsan Zabihian, Mehran Mirshams, Peyman Nikpey Paper Title: Statistical GEO satellite's reliability analysis based on operational life time. Date: 31 December; 2018 Place: Tehran/Iranian Space Research Center (ISRC) Symposium: 4th Specialized Meeting of Scientific and Technical Achievements of Iranian Space Research Center Paper Presentation by: Ms. Niki Sajjad Authors: Niki Sajjad, Shahrokh Jalilian, Mehran Mirshams Paper Title: Micro [...]

Visit Chief Executive Officer of Iranian Space Research Center from Space Research Lab. On December 9th, 2018 On December 9, 2018, the Chair of the Iranian Space Research Center, Dr. Samimi, along with the accompanying delegation (Mr. Dr. Jafar Salihi, Dr. Abdollahi, Dr. Libibian, Dr. Reisi) and with the presence of the chairman of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Mr. Karimi Mazareeshahi, at a three Hours visit from the Space [...]

Title: CubeSat Lunar Mission Design By Zahra Hoodan Supervisor: Dr. Mehran Mirshams Chairmen: Dr. Hasan Naseh (Aerospace Research Institute), Dr. Mahdi Jafari Nadoushan (K. N. Toosi University of Technology) September 12, 2018 Space exploration and travelling to The Moon and Mars, was the topic of world space week in 2017, and also the 2019-year theme will be "The Moon: Gateway to the stars". Furthermore, the space [...]

Title: GEO communication satellites reliability analysis based on operational life By Sara MirshekariSupervisor: Dr. Mehran MirshamsAdvisor: Dr. Ehsan ZabihianChairman: Dr. Saeid Irani (K. N. Toosi University of Technology), Dr. Hasan Naseh (Aerospace Research Institute)September 11, 2018 Abstract: The geosynchronous satellites as a complicated system with high lifetime in order to design and manufacturing need to certain and step by step process allocation and analysis of reliability. Regard [...]

Title: Conceptual design of GEO communication all electric satellite By Negin Abbas RezaeiSupervisor: Dr. Mehran MirshamsAdvisor: Soheil S. ZamaniChairmen: Dr. Ali Jafarsalehi, Dr. Mahdi Jafari Nadoushan (K. N. Toosi University of Technology)September 11, 2018 The purpose of this thesis is the conceptual design of all-electric telecommunication satellites in GEO orbits. The design method uses statistical and parametric modeling. Statistical models are based on data analysis of all telecommunication satellites, [...]

Title: Systematic Design of a Satellite with Design Structure Matrix (DSM) Method By Mahdi BayatSupervisor: Dr. Mehran MirshamsAdvisor: E. Sajad GhazanfarniaChairman: September 11, 2018 Abstract The purpose of this study is to introduce and propose design structure matrix in the conceptual designing phase for CubeSats. The designing process began from eliciting performance parameters and culminated in the formation of design structure matrix, determining dependencies and finally their optimization. Optimization of [...]