Shavit launch of Ofek 16
A Shavit rocket lifts off July 5 carrying the Ofek 16 reconnaissance satellite for the Israeli military.

Israel launched the latest in a series of reconnaissance satellites July 5 on the country’s Shavit rocket.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...