Shavit failure

The launch of a Shavit booster from Palmachin air base near Tel Aviv, Israel, on 22 January failed to place the 225kg Ofeq 4 satellite into its correct 143° -inclination low-Earth orbit. The Ofeq 4, which was to have replaced the Ofeq 3, is expected to make a premature re-entry.

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