Israel's own launch vehicle program, the Shavit family that has carried the country's satellites to the retrograde orbits its geography requires, launching westward over the Mediterranean rather than eastward.
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1. Wikipedia: Ofeq 1
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Ofeq, also spelled Offek or Ofek (Hebrew: אופק, lit. Horizon) is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988.
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