Other Names: Al-Battani Center, Baghdad Space Research Center
Location: Baghdad, Jadiriyah district, 5km SW of city center; SRC is situated next to Baghdad University and the National Monitoring Directorate
Subordinate to: Military Industrialization Commission
Primary Function: Space research, including remote sensing and satellite communications

Description:
The Space Research Center (SRC) occupied several floors of a seven-story building located on the grounds of Baghdad University. One floor within the building housed a Ba'ath party office. Before the first Gulf War, SRC fell under the jurisdiction of the Scientific Research Council. During that time, its missile-related activities included work on the first stage of the Al-'Aabed Space Launch Vehicle. SRC also designed and developed a rudimentary satellite though it was never launched; the satellite remained on display in the post-war years. After the war, SRC apparently returned to its central tasking of space-related research, although it conducted ballistics studies for missile entities and may have been involved in a post-war study on a space launch vehicle using SA-2-type engines.

During their inspections, UNMOVIC teams found that Al-Battani was providing the telemetry systems for the Al-Samoud flight-tests.

Key Sources: UN Inspection Data; CNS UNMOVIC Inspection Database, <http://cns.miis.edu/Iraq-Inspections>.

	Updated October 2003