Iranian Space Research Center

Official logo of ISRC
Agency overview
Formed	January 1, 2000; 24 years ago (2000-01-01)
Jurisdiction	Presidential Administration of Iran , Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics (Iran) , Ministry of Information and Communications Technology of Iran
Headquarters	Tehran
Annual budget	$67,000,000 (2014) [1] $128,000,000(2023) [2]
Website	www.isrc.ac.ir

The Iranian Space Research Center (ISRC, Persian: پژوهشگاه فضایی ایران Pazhoheshgah e Fazái e Irán) is a research center - Institute established by Iran's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (Iran) in 2000 to perform research in the field of space and manufacture Iranian civil satellites and Space rockets. In 2010, the administration was transferred to the office of president. Then, it again transferred to its primary ministry.

The ISRC and Iranian Space Agency are the main organizations carrying space research and operations in Iran . And also this institution provides sophisticated educational resources in the discipline of space sciences, specifically designed for accomplished and talented postgraduate and doctoral scholars, in strict adherence to established criteria and international educational principles and under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (Iran)^[3]

• 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 equipment

• Designing and construction of the microgravity simulator
• Conceptual design of an orbiting spacecraft carrying the living organism
• Aerospace applications in environmental studies and environmental remote sensing.

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"
• Providing educational facilities for training elite and talented students in post-graduate and doctoral level, as well as training skilled and expert workforce in space sciences ^[4]

On Tuesday, September 12, 2018, the US Treasury Department announced in a statement that it has added the names of the Space Organization, the Space Research Center and the Space Research Institute of Iran to the list of sanctions Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the entities under this ministry. This research and educational institute is currently under the sanctions of the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand^{[5] [6]}

• List of government space agencies

• Iranian Space Research Center Archived 2022-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Iranian Aerospace Research Center (The old website)
• U.S.Department Of State Sanctions on ISRC
• U.S. Department Of The Treasury Imposed ISRC to the Blacklist