This handout video grab taken and released on August 9, 2022 by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite blasting off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. - An Iranian satellite launched by Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan early August 9, 2022, and went into orbit amid controversy that Moscow might use it to improve its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)
Russia launched an Iranian satellite into Orbit on Tuesday, which Iranian officials say marks the beginning of a "strategic cooperation" between the two countries on the space front.