Pishgam

Pishgam (Persian: پیشگام, "pioneer") is an Iranian 300-kilogramme space capsule and associated rocket (کاوشگر پیشگام Kavoshgar-Pishgam "Explorer-Pioneer"), which launched containing rhesus monkey and is part of a series of Iranian rocket launches containing biological cargo intended as precursors to human spaceflight.

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