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- A physics lab in Iran is to place two private satellites in orbit. 
Both will measure various physical quantities up there. May also look 
down to see things. They're not tied to any military or militia entity 
directly. But ... I doubt government hasn't sponsored at least part of 
that lab's costs. Perhaps that part of what the lab owes is paid by 
having a few reconnaissance instruments on them as well, watching 
warships and cargo ships closely for Houthis.

"Kowsar", one of them, has a camera with resolution of reported 3.45 
meters from a 500 km altitude. It can be a downplayed number though, to 
avert attention for other military uses, but even at that resolution it 
is good enough for identifying ships :)

Other uses of this camera will be agriculture, geographical mapping, and 
reporting violators of Iran's sea borders, which to this day happens 
relatively often by both American and British ships. This kind of show 
off play will be over in a few months.

It has a sure two-year lifetime, and will be replaced with newer ones 
when the old ones become problematic.

Cost of building them is minimal, cost of launch is based on amicable 
agreement with Russians, and one day not too far into future Iran will 
launch them herself. I can guess that like anything else that Iran does 
and builds and develops, they've found an optimum way of doing a maximum 
number of tasks efficiently, with the least cost and trouble. It is not 
a rip off instrument.

This is one of them:

https://i.postimg.cc/15BBNyPM/Kosar-satellite.jpg

It is a little bitty thing, only 30 kg. But packed with measuring and 
other instruments. The other one to some extent will share the work up 
there with this one, but otherwise has its own unique instruments, thus 
has a different name.

Iran is also providing a "Moon rover" and a Moon orbiter for a Chinese 
project that they recently offered as help for countries who want to 
learn and catch up with the related science and technology; 10 countries 
competed for it and Iran won!

These are nice exercises before Iranians begin doing stuff all on their 
own. Kudos to China and Iran both.