The launch comes less than two weeks after the Amos 6 communications satellite, built by IAI for Spacecom Satellite Communications Ltd., was destroyed on the launch pad when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded in Florida.
This is the seventh spy satellite launched by Israel. Ofek 11, costing $300 million, joins Ofek 10 and Ofek 9, which was launched in June 2010.
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