"Continuous Contact with Ofek-11 has been Attained"
The Israeli Defense Ministry gave its official confirmation that the Ofek-11
spy satellite that was launched last week has been stabilized and
transmitted first images from space
IsraelDefense | 23/09/2016
http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/content/continuous-contact-ofek-11-has-been-attained

The Israeli satellite Ofek-11 on Thursday started to transmit images from
space after many days in which no one in the Israeli aerospace industry was
sure about its fate.

“Starting September 13, we’ve been engaged in taking down one subsystem
after another until we got control of the satellite,” said Amnon Harari,
head of the space administration in the Defense Ministry, adding that “now
it’s been giving operation-grade production, excellent pictures."

"We activated the satellite’s cameras, and the images look great,” Harari
stated. “We examined all the satellite’s systems and are in continuous
contact with it. It will provide us with operational productivity thanks to
the joint effort of the engineering and operation teams at the Defense
Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries."

"We have worked together in order to reach the very impressive achievement
in the form of lovely images,” stated Head of the IAI’s MBT Space Division
Ofer Doron. “We managed to stabilize Ofek-11. We cannot give any details
regarding its capabilities, but the main thing is that we have excellent
images. It was a difficult birth and the satellite’s operation is
complicated but nonetheless we managed to get exceptional images."