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Mission failed for the Israeli Ofek-6 spy satellite

Tel Aviv, Israel - The rocket carrier devoted to put it into orbit would have exploded in flight just after its takeoff

Israel experienced the failure of an important launch related to the Ofek-6 military satellite yesterday. The related aerospace programme scheduled to put into orbit the new national-made spy satellite through a rocket which took off from the Israeli territory itself, when a still not clear technical failure would have caused immediately after the carrier’s departure the explosion of this one and o...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 102848
Rome, Italy, 09/07/2004 15:10
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