TEHRAN: Iran has successfully launched a second domestically built satellite into orbit, Iran's Arabic language Al-Alam television reported Wednesday. “Iran launched a domestically built rocket and the Rasad 1 (satellite) has been put into orbit,” Al-Alam reported. In February 2009, Iran launched its first domestically built satellite, the OMID (Hope) research and telecoms satellite, in what it described as a big step coinciding with the 30th anniversary of its 1979 Revolution.