Russia Launches Israeli Spy Satellite

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:50:05 GMT, Gene Cash wrote:

(Henry Spencer) writes:

In article , Gene Cash wrote:
"...powerful and able to defend ourselves."

...except *cough**cough* we're not powerful enough to launch our own spy
satellites... ahem.

Except that they are, and they have. Just why this one went to a Russian
launcher is a bit unclear; maybe it outgrew the Shavit.

Thanks. I tried to Google it, and I just couldn't remember anything
close to the proper spelling.

So how do you think they handled the technology transfer problem? I'm
sure it doesn't have anything new the Russians haven't already thought
of or used, but you never know.

What technology transfer? I'm sure Israeli officials accompianied the satellite
and retained control over it throughout. It's not like they FedExed it to Tyura-Tam
errrr, I mean Baikonur and asked them to launch it sometime

Dale

Dale wrote:
What technology transfer? I'm sure Israeli officials accompianied the satellite
and retained control over it throughout. It's not like they FedExed it to Tyura-Tam
errrr, I mean Baikonur and asked them to launch it sometime

Well, if they FedExed it to Baikonur, they should demand their money
back from FedEx, since it launched from Svobodny...

I guess the Russians have taken well to capitalism... selling nuclear
tech and weapons to Iran, and then selling launches to Israel to spy
said items.