Publish Date: 22 August 2015 - 11:51

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) – More than 40 Iranian firms in the field of space technology are due to display their latest achievements in Russia’s MAKS-2015 aerospace exhibition.

Russia’s aerospace exhibition is held biennially in the Moscow town of Zhukovfsky in late August and this year it will be attended by about 40 countries in the field of space technology from August 25 – 31.

Islamic Republic of Iran as one of the leading countries in the field of space technology has planned to put its home-made products and achievements on display at the MAKS-2015 aerospace show.

Iranian companies which enjoy a larger space in the exhibition this year are due to present several indigenous systems and equipment including Safir and Simorq satellite carriers, Rasad, Fajr, and Tolou satellites, a space probe rocket, the mock-up of Iranian spacecraft, and the bio-capsule containing living creatures.

Iran's presence at the exhibition has been organized by the Iranian National Space Center and the Scientific and Technological Department of President Office and several satellites and launchers, jet engines, navigation systems, helicopters and airplanes produced by related Iranian firms and companies will be displayed this year.