[FPSPACE] India buys Israeli spysat

[Keith Gottschalk]

  It's an extraordinary compliment to Israel's electrronics industry
that it is ahead of India on making this sort of machinery.
Only months ago India sold its first launch to an Israeli spysat - now
it buys one of them for itself.

   As a lay person. I had thought that  "see through clouds" must mean
radar, as opposed to IR or light amplification for light imaging. Am I
correct?   - Keith

>>> LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com> 03/24/09 2:00 PM >>>
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>India buys Israeli spy satellite: report
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> New Delhi (AFP) March 20, 2009 - India has bought a spy satellite
from Israel with day-and-night viewing capability to 
>boost surveillance capabilities in the aftermath of the Mumbai
militant attacks, a report said Friday. The satellite, which can 
>see through clouds and carry out day-and-night all-weather imaging,
has been one of the long-standing demands of the 
>Indian military, the NDTV news channel said. The 300 kilogram ...
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http://www.spacewar.com/reports/India_buys_Israeli_spy_satellite_report_999.html