Mission type Optical reconnaissance SATCAT no. 31601 Bus OPSAT-2000 | COSPAR ID 2007-025A Mission duration 5 years planned | |
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Operator Israeli Ministry of Defence | ||
Ofek-7, also known as Ofeq 7, is part of the Ofeq family of Earth observation satellites designed and built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) for the Israel Ministry of Defense.
The Ofek 7 was launched by a Shavit space launch vehicle on June 11, 2007. Equipped with advanced technology and a series of new enhancements to provide improved imagery, it is placed into an elliptical orbit of 300 × 600 km (190 × 370 mi). Three days after its launch, IAI/MBT Space Division received the first images taken by the satellite. The Ofek-7 is a follow-on spacecraft to Ofek-5 that was placed into orbit in 2002.
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