Ofeq-5 was said to be about 33% heavier than its predecessors. It was built by IAI/MBT for the Israeli Space Agency and carried an imaging reconnaissance camera. The Ofeq-5 telescope/camera was produced by El-Op Electro-Optic Industries, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems. The system - which acquired images underneath and lateral to the satellite and in swaths ahead of its trajectory - was bigger than that installed on the Ofeq-3 and could produce images with 0.8 meter resolution. The Ofeq-5 had a design life of four years.

Length: 2.30 m (7.50 ft). Maximum Diameter: 1.20 m (3.90 ft). Mass: 300 kg (660 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Shavit 1.

• 2002 May 28 - Ofeq-5 - Program: Offeq. Launch Site: Palmachim. Launch Vehicle: Shavit 1. Mass: 300 kg (660 lb). Perigee: 370 km (220 mi). Apogee: 757 km (470 mi). Inclination: 143.50 deg. Period: 95.90 min.

  Military Observation satellite. Return to flight of the Shavit booster following a lauanch failure. Launch delayed from third quarter 2001. The three-stage Shavit rocket took off from Palmachim Air Force Base on the Israeli coast and flew westward to put the satellite in a retrograde orbit. The AUS-51 third stage solid motor entered a 262 x 774 km x 143.5 deg orbit and separated from the Ofeq satellite. Both coasted up to apogee at around 1620 UTC when Ofeq made a burn to increase its velocity by 33 m/s, raising the orbit to 369 x 771 km x 143.5 deg.

• 2004 September 6 - Ofeq-6 - Program: Offeq. Launch Site: Palmachim. Launch Vehicle: Shavit 1. FAILURE: Third stage orientation failure at 270 seconds into the flight. Mass: 300 kg (660 lb).

  Military observation satellite failed to reach orbit. Finanical loss estimated by Israeli press as $ 100 million.

• 2007 June 10 - Ofeq-7 - Program: Offeq. Launch Site: Palmachim. Launch Vehicle: Shavit 1. Mass: 300 kg (660 lb). Perigee: 340 km (210 mi). Apogee: 576 km (357 mi). Inclination: 141.80 deg. Period: 93.80 min.

  Israeli optical reconnaisance satellite, evidently using an improved version of the Shavit booster and probably heavier and more capable than its predecessors.

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