Iranian state TV on Thursday quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying the Persian nation would soon "launch a rocket, which has 16 engines and will take a satellite some 430 miles" into space.
Ahmadinejad spoke to a group of Iranian expatriates in New York, where he was attending the UN General Assembly.
Iran is working on a space program. Earlier this month, it announced that a joint Iranian-Chinese research satellite was sent into orbit by a Chinese-made rocket.
Last month, Iran tested a rocket it hopes will one day carry an all-Iranian research satellite. In 2005, Teheran sent its first commercial satellite into space on a Russian rocket
