Credit: CREDIT: Planet Labs Inc. and the Middlebury Institute Images show activity at the checkout building and the circular launch pad at Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Semnan, Iran. According to the Middlebury Institute, the images suggest at launch is likely, possibly at the circular pad.

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