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{{Short description|Israeli reconnaissance satellite}}
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{{Infobox spaceflight
| name              = Ofeq-7
| names_list        = Ofek-7<br/>Offek-7
| image             = Shavit Ofek7a.jpg
| image_caption     = Ofeq-7 launch on a [[Shavit 2]] launch vehicle
| image_size        = 300px

| mission_type      = Optical reconnaissance
| operator          = [[Ministry of Defense (Israel)|Israeli Ministry of Defence]] / [[Israel Defense Forces|Tsahal]]
| COSPAR_ID         = 2007-025A
| SATCAT            = 31601
| website           = 
| mission_duration  = 5 years (planned) <ref name="UCS">{{cite web|url=http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nwgs/UCS_Satellite_Database_9-1-13.txt|title=UCS Satellite Database|publisher=Union of Concerned Scientists|access-date=21 November 2013|archive-date=4 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104234546/http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nwgs/UCS_Satellite_Database_9-1-13.txt|url-status=dead}}</ref><br/>{{time interval|10 June 2007|show=ymd}} ''(in progress)''

| spacecraft        = Ofeq-7
| spacecraft_type   = 
| spacecraft_bus    = [[OPSAT-2000]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ofeq-5.htm|title=Ofeq 5, 6, 7, 9|publisher=Gunter's Space Page|date=21 July 2019|access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref>
| manufacturer      = [[Israel Aerospace Industries]]
| launch_mass       = {{cvt|300|kg}}
| dry_mass          = 
| dimensions        = 
| power             =

| launch_date       = 10 June 2007, 23:40 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]]<ref name="Launch Log"/>
| launch_rocket     = [[Shavit 2]] (No.7)
| launch_site       = [[Palmachim Airbase|Palmachim Air Base]]
| launch_contractor = [[Israel Aerospace Industries]]

| disposal_type     = 
| deactivated       = 
| last_contact      = 
| decay_date        =

| orbit_reference   = [[Geocentric orbit]]<ref name="NASA Trajectory">{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayTrajectory.action?id=2007-025A|title=Trajectory: Ofeq-7 2007-025A |publisher=NASA|date=27 April 2021|access-date=8 May 2021}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
| orbit_regime      = [[Low Earth orbit]]<br/><small>([[Retrograde orbit]])</small>
| orbit_periapsis   = {{cvt|339|km}}
| orbit_apoapsis    = {{cvt|575|km}}
| orbit_inclination = 141.80°
| orbit_period      = 93.70 minutes
| apsis             = gee

| programme         = [[Ofeq|Ofeq series]]
| previous_mission  = [[Ofeq-6]]
| next_mission      = [[TecSAR|TecSAR-1 (Ofeq-8)]]
}}

'''Ofeq-7'''<ref name="NASA Display">{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2007-025A|title=Display: Ofeq-7 2007-025A|publisher=NASA|date=27 April 2021|access-date=8 May 2021}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> (also known as Ofek 7 or Offek-7) is part of the [[Ofeq]] family of [[Earth observation satellite]]s designed and built by [[Israel Aerospace Industries]] (IAI) for the [[Ministry of Defense (Israel)|Israel Ministry of Defense]].

== Launch ==
The Ofeq-7 was launched by a [[Shavit 2]] space launch vehicle on 10 June 2007 at 23:40 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]].<ref name="Launch Log">{{cite web|url=http://planet4589.org/space/log/launchlog.txt |title=Launch Log|publisher=Jonathan's Space Report|date=14 March 2021|access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref> Equipped with advanced technology and a series of new enhancements to provide improved imagery, it is placed into an [[elliptical orbit]] of {{cvt|300|xx|600|km}}.<ref name="heavens-above">{{cite web|url=http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=31601|title=OFEQ 7|publisher=Heavens Above|access-date=8 May 2021}}</ref>

== Mission ==
Three days after its launch, on 13 June 2007, [[Israel Aerospace Industries|IAI MBT Space Division]] received the first images taken by the satellite. The Ofeq-7 is a follow-on spacecraft to Ofeq-5 that was placed into orbit in 2002.

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