Israel Contracts ImageSat for Exclusive Rights to Mid-East Pictures

Israel's Ministry of Defense has signed a contract with ImageSat for the exclusive rights to all commercial imaging of Israel provided by the recently launched Eros A1 satellite within a radius of 2,000 km around Israel and thus covers countries such as Libya, Iraq, Iran, Syria and even the Muslim republics of the former Soviet Union. The Ministry of Defense is a preferred customer of Imagesat and can reserve the satellite for its needs and even receives command capability for the camera. The contract was reported at US$15 million (NIS61 million).

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