(AP-Ynet News) A new Israeli spy satellite is operational and taking high-quality pictures after suffering technical difficulties during its launch on Sept. 13, defense officials said Thursday. Amnon Harari, director of the Defense Ministry's space administration, said satellite operators downloaded the first images from the Ofek 11 satellite on Thursday. Ofer Doron, head of the space division at Israel Aerospace Industries, the maker of the satellite, said the country's most sophisticated spy satellite took images of "interesting" places in the region on Thursday. He said the photos were "absolutely" the quality the satellite's designers had intended. "You should smile when you look up at it," he said.
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