They put good defensive pressure on the bigger Rockets, but they were essentially outmanned.
Experts who have examined the site through satellite imagery have said that it was designed for bigger rockets than the Unha-3.
Experts who have examined the site through satellite imagery have said it was designed for bigger rockets than the Unha-3.
It said both sites might be used to launch the Simorgh rocket, which Iran introduced in 2010 as a way to carry orbital satellites into space, or even bigger rockets.
The Iranian president had been campaigning in the province where the launching took place, and he promised that "in the near future we will launch bigger rockets with bigger reach".
The parts for the bigger rockets often come with no, or misleading, instructions, because they are made by tiny private companies in the US who don't always know quite what they are doing.
It's now commonplace, for example, to see bigger rockets pump out small satellites after they have dropped off a primary payload in orbit.
North Korea appears to be upgrading one of its two rocket launch sites, US experts say, perhaps in a move to test bigger rockets.
