October 2005 in Science - October 27, 2005

October 27, 2005

• Satellite launches:
  • Iran's first satellite, the Sinah-1 reconnaissance satellite, built jointly with Russia, is launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia at 10:52 local time (06:52 UTC). (Iran-daily.com) (Spaceflight Now)
  • Also part of the payload on the same Cosmos-3M rocket are several microsatellites, among which are the European Space Agency's SSETI—a project with students from 21 universities—and China's Beijing-1, carrying the British-built China Mapping Telescope. (BBC)
• The first light pictures taken by the Large Binocular Telescope on October 12 are released to the public. (SpaceRef.com)