Aerospace Research Institute

Aerospace Research Institute

پژوهشگاه هوافضا
Type	Public
Established	1999
Location	Tehran , Iran
Website	www.ari.ac.ir

The Aerospace Research Institute (ARI) (Persian: پژوهشگاه هوافضا) is a public advanced research institute founded in 1999 in Tehran, Iran.

• Designing, manufacturing and launching four generations of space sounding rockets (eight sounding payloads)
• Manufacturing and testing the cold gas propulsion system
• Identification of standards used in the designing, manufacturing and testing of space equipments
• Designing and manufacturing the fixed flight simulator for “Iran-140” airliner
• Codification of the national comprehensive document for aerospace development
• Designing and construction of the microgravity simulator
• Conceptual design of an orbiting spacecraft carrying the living organism

Furthermore, more than 500 completed and 156 ongoing research projects are being carried out currently, entitled:

• Designing, construction and testing the first generation of suborbital manned spacecraft.
• Telemetry conceptual design for the altitude of 250 km
• Designing, manufacturing and testing the recovery system for a 500 kg payload.
• Dynamic analysis of the astronaut’s Body for suborbital spaceflights
• Feasibility study of the attitude control system for sounding rockets
• Designing, manufacturing and testing “the moving- mass control actuator”