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Report: Egypt to launch spy satellite

Monday, 15-Jan-2007 01:48PM EDT
Story from United Press International. Copyright 2007 by United Press International (via ClariNet)

JERUSALEM, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Israeli intelligence officials said Egypt was poised Monday to launch its first spy satellite from Kazakhstan to monitor the Middle East.

Tal Inbar, a senior researcher from Israel's military Fisher Brothers Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, told YNetNews the 220-pound Egyptstat 1 satellite was designed by the Ukrainian company, Yuzhnoe Design, and was scheduled to be launched Tuesday.

The device will orbit the earth at an altitude of about 410 miles, and transmit back black and white, color and infrared photographs at relatively low resolution.

Inbar estimated the cameras would be capable of spotting objects larger than 13 feet high or across, the report said.

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