Israel's most top secret security installations have been jeopardized by a new version of Google Earth, Israeli military experts say.
Military space reconnaissance capabilities are proliferating. This week, the U.S., Israel, India, China and Brazil could advance their commercial, technological and strategic interests with new milsats set to be launched. Once aloft, the satellites will look into each other's backyards and try to steal each other's customers. And they all will be watching Iran.
Israel's military launched a spy satellite toward space early Monday, the Defense Ministry said, and a senior official suggested it could help keep track of developments in Iran.
The first high-quality images from the Israeli Eros B spy satellite designed to track Iran's nuclear program arrived at a ground station over the weekend. Sample photographs from the satellite were officially distributed in an apparent attempt to convince Iran that Israel had the technical capacity to monitor their nuclear program.
Israel has launched a satellite that officials say will enhance its ability to spy on Iran's nuclear programme. The satellite, reportedly capable of taking clear photographs of objects on the ground as small as 70cm (2ft), was sent into space from eastern Russia.
ISRAEL’S armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed. Among Israeli concerns is that Iran's developing space program could give them an early-warning capacity that will prevent future pre-emptive strikes.
Iran said a recently launched satellite would be purely scientific. But a month after its launch -- and only weeks after the president said Israel should be wiped off the map -- the head of Tehran's space program now says the Sina-1 is capable of spying on the Jewish state.
A professor at the Israeli Technion-Israel Institute of Technology argued that the recent launch of an Israeli satellite means Israel "has established [its] capability to launch, by means of a missile, a payload to any location on the face of the earth."
Iraq protested Israel's launch of a new spy satellite arguing that it posed a "threat to Arab national security" and urged Arab states to counter the move.