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- <text id=90TT0793>
- <title>
- Apr. 02, 1990: World Notes:Israel
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 33
- World Notes
- ISRAEL
- A New Spy in The Sky
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> The Middle East arms race is expected to take another leap
- into space soon when Israel launches its second and most
- sophisticated reconnaissance satellite. Dubbed the Ofek-2, the
- spying device may be in orbit in a matter of weeks, providing
- detailed photographs of troop movements and missile activity
- in Israel's neighboring Arab states.
- </p>
- <p> Although still considered experimental, Ofek-2 (the name
- means Horizon in Hebrew) is equipped with a state-of-the-art
- high-resolution electro-optical camera and is programmed to
- circle the globe for at least two years. Its predecessor,
- Ofek-1, was launched in September 1988 and stayed aloft four
- months.
- </p>
- <p> Both satellites were developed by state-owned Israel
- Aircraft Industries and were designed to be hurled into space
- by Israel's powerful rocket, the Shavit (Comet). I.A.I. is also
- working on a civilian communications satellite, called the
- Amos, which it hopes to send into orbit within two years.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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