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June 21, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4394929,00.html

Young Officer Fixes IDF Satellite

(Ynet News) Akiva Novick - It was revealed on Wednesday that a young IDF officer developed a unique model that saved Israel's vital Ofek 5 satellite and put it back into operation, saving the state nearly NIS 500 million. "The satellite Ofek 5, which was in space for many years and supplied good intelligence, just started sputtering and provided pictures in rapidly deteriorating quality until they were nearly unusable," recalled Col. (res.) Shai Gilboa. Major Yanki devised a theory which determined the cause of the fault and proved it in the lab, after which the engineers on the ground changed the cameras' focus. "To our surprise, it fixed the camera."

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