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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
23:40:00
Sunday June 10, 2007
First flight of Shavit-2.
Ofek-7 was placed into an elliptical orbit with a perigee of 340 km and an apogee of 576 km. With a weight of 300 kg identical to its predecessors, it is equipped with a new instrument allowing it to take more accurate images, with a spatial resolution of 70 cm. In addition, the satellite is specified as being agile enough to take multiple images of an area. Its expected life is 5 years.
Retrograde Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
300 kilograms
9th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2007
9th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2007
27th
Orbital launch attempt