IAI Ofeq-5

Ofeq-5 is an Israeli optical reconnaissance satellite built by Israel Aerospace Industries, then Israel Aircraft Industries, for the Israeli armed forces. It is the lead satellite of the second generation of Israeli spy satellites, built on the OPSAT-2000 bus, and it was launched on 28 May 2002 on a Shavit-1 rocket from Palmachim, the return to flight of the Shavit after an earlier failure. Its imaging system, supplied by the El-Op division of Elbit Systems, was larger than the one on Ofeq-3 and is said to resolve 0.8 m, with a four-year design life. Gunter's Space Page gives its mass as 189 kg while Encyclopedia Astronautica gives 300 kg. Its orbit is about 367 by 764 km at 143.5 degrees, and in 2022 it was still reported operational.