[Aviation Week] Craig Covault - Israel's first "Polaris/TecSat" military imaging radar satellite is to be launched this week along with India's first military recon spacecraft atop the same powerful Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The mission, from India's launch site on an island in the Bay of Bengal, will also inaugurate major military space cooperation between India and Israel. If successful, the Israeli space-based radar will put Israel among the small list of nations with imaging radar reconnaissance satellites able to distinguish camouflaged vehicles from rocky terrain, for example, and to see at night and through clouds and foliage.
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