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Abu Dhabi to subscribe to Israeli satellite service
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by tikun | February 22, 2009 at 11:56 am
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Just when you think you understand what's going on a curve is thrown.
Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates' second largest member, stands to sign a multi-million dollar deal with Israel's ImageSat International, the American Defense News magazine reported recently.
ImageSat, which is co-owned by the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and several private investors, owns and operates two EROS satellites, whose services will now be open to the Gulf state as well.
According to the report, Abu Dhabi and ImageSat signed their first imagery cooperation agreement back in 2006, enabling the country to subscribe to ImageSat's Eros-A satellite services. The new agreement will allow the UAE state access to images generated by Eros-B, which was launched into orbit in April of 2006.
Both satellites were manufactured by Israel – the frames by the IAI and the imagery cameras by Elbit Systems' subsidiary, Elop. The new contract is said to be worth $20 million a year.
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at 22:08 on February 22nd, 2009
There's a lot more business, under-the-table, between the Arab world and Israel than this, n'est-ce pas?
at 22:54 on February 22nd, 2009
Oh..!
So what happened to the "Boycot Israeli Products" fever?
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