CORRECTED (OFFICIAL) - Iran puts first dummy satellite in space

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran put a dummy satellite into orbit on a home-grown rocket for the first time on Sunday, proving its capacity to launch satellites, the head of Iran's aerospace body said.

"The Safir satellite carrier was launched today and for the first time we successfully launched a dummy satellite into orbit," Reza Taghizadeh told state television.

Iranian state media had earlier wrongly reported that Iran had put a domestically made Omid (Hope) satellite into orbit.