Chairman of Iran national space administration believes that the private sector plays an insignificant role in aerial activities.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, Manouchehr Manteghi, chairman of Iran national space administration, criticized the insignificant role of the private sector in aerial activities of the country, expressing: one of the defects of the country in the area of using space activities is the insignificant role of the private sector, which must be eliminated with the help of all relevant organizations.

He continued: in addition, we need to more focus on research satellites in the area of exploitation.

According to Manteghi, lack of attention to developmental programs of space technologies in the national economy and insignificant role of the private sector in space activities is another problem of this field.

He added: if any of the regional countries had similar scientific abilities, they would significantly invest in this area as the national wealth.