India to launch Israeli military spy satellite

NEW DELHI—India is expected to launch an Israeli spy satellite by an Indian rocket in the first quarter of this year. Media reports quoting a senior Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official said in Visakhapatnam, on Saturday, the military satellite “TechSAR€” would be launched the ISRO’s workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.
The spy satellite has the capabilities to take clear images of earth even in cloudy conditions. It will be Israel’s first synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite, which can take sharp pictures of sub-metre resolution to boost its intelligence gathering capabilities.
The launch of the satellite was expected in September last but it ran into some “technical difficulties.” —Agencies