IAI Ofeq-6

Ofeq-6 was an Israeli optical reconnaissance satellite built by Israel Aerospace Industries, then Israel Aircraft Industries, to join Ofeq-5 in orbit. It carried long-range cameras with night-vision capability. A Shavit-1 rocket launched it from Palmachim on 6 September 2004, but the rocket's third-stage orientation failed about 270 seconds into the flight and the satellite did not reach orbit. Israeli press estimates put the financial loss at about 100 million dollars. The catalogues give it a mass of about 300 kg, the same as Ofeq-5 and Ofeq-7 in Encyclopedia Astronautica. The series continued with Ofeq-7, launched in June 2007.