Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force
Aerospace service branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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| June 14 2025 | Majid Mousavi was appointed as the new commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, taking over the role after it was vacant for one day following Hajizadeh's death. |
| June 13 2025 | Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh was killed along with 20 other senior officers during Israeli strikes, leaving the force's commander role vacant. |
| May 2025 | Iran unveiled the Qassem Bassir, a new medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) with a solid-fueled, two-stage system. The missile is an improved variant of the Haj Qassem series, named after Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. Iranian officials claim it has a range of approximately 1,200 km and can penetrate advanced missile defenses with 'pinpoint' accuracy. |
| January 2024 | Successfully performed the first orbital launch of the Qaem 100 launch vehicle, placing the Soraya satellite into a 750 km orbit and setting a new altitude record for Iran. |
| September 2023 | Launched Noor-3 (Najm) satellite on a Qassed launcher, reaching a 450 kilometer orbit. The satellite weighs 24 kg and has a camera image resolution of 6 to 4.8 meters. |
| June 6 2023 | The hypersonic ballistic missile 'Fattah' was officially unveiled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, following previous announcements about its capabilities. |
| November 2022 | Conducted a successful suborbital test launch of the newly unveiled Qaem-100 launch vehicle. |
| November 10 2022 | During the 11th anniversary of Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam's death, Iran announced the development of an advanced hypersonic ballistic missile. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh claimed the missile can maneuver in multiple atmospheric conditions and breach advanced missile defense systems. |
| March 2022 | Launched the Noor-2 military reconnaissance satellite into orbit using the Qased launch vehicle from the Shahroud Space Center. |
| August 2020 | Iran unveiled the Haj Qasem ballistic missile, named after Qasem Soleimani who was assassinated by the US earlier that year. |
| July 2020 | The Aerospace Force claimed to have received detailed reconnaissance images of Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, captured by the Noor satellite. |
| June 2020 | Iranian admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced that Iran would soon start producing indigenous Supersonic cruise missiles equipped with turbofan engines. |
| April 22 2020 | IRGC Aerospace Force publicly announced its Space Command and successfully launched its first military satellite, Noor, into orbit, becoming part of an elite group of about a dozen countries with such capabilities. |
| January 2020 | Qasem Soleimani was assassinated by the United States, which later became the namesake for the Iranian ballistic missile Haj Qasem. |
| February 2019 | Iran unveiled the Dezful medium-range ballistic missile in an underground missile factory. Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh noted it as an upgrade to the older Zolfaghar missile model, with an extended range over 1,000 kilometers and capable of reaching Mach 7 speed. |
| February 2 2019 | The Hoveyzeh Cruise Missile was officially unveiled and displayed at a defense achievements exhibition in Tehran, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. |
| August 2013 | Ahmad Vahidi, former defense minister of Iran, claimed that Iran was ranked sixth in the world in missile production. |
| May 2013 | Iran's Ministry of Defense and Logistics delivered a massive number of missile Transporter Erector Launchers (TELs) to the IRGC Aerospace Force, with Iranian television showing at least 26 TELs lined up in two rows. |
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