{"id":5270,"date":"2025-09-07T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5270\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:40:15","slug":"israel-launches-new-military-surveillance-satellite-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5270\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel launches new military surveillance satellite into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel on Tuesday launched its latest spy satellite into space from an undisclosed site, the Defence Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ofek 19 satellite was built by state-run Israel Aerospace Industries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ofek 19 is a highly advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) observation satellite with enhanced capabilities,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon entering Earth\u2019s orbit, the satellite will undergo a series of designated tests to assess its integrity and performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Israel has launched Ofek observation satellites since 1988 for monitoring and intelligence gathering for the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel on Tuesday launched its latest spy satellite into space from an undisclosed site, the Defence Ministry said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}