Sep 19 1988
From The Space Library
Israel launched its first orbital satellite aboard an Israeli-built rocket. The Horizon I experimental satellite was launched from an Israeli launch facility in the Negev desert aboard what U.S. experts believed was either a Jericho II or a Comet launch vehicle, The Horizon I was expected to have an operational lifetime of one month in low-Earth orbit. (SSR, 1988 087A-B; NY Times, Sep 20/88; W Post, Sep 20/88; W Times, Sep 20/88; CSM, Sep 20/88; B Sun, Sep 20/88; LA Times, Sep 20/88)
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