Moroccan Satellite Has Military Applications That Are Used In Spying

French newspaper Le Monde said countries are used to celebrate buying satellites that would increase their influence, but Morocco chose to keep quiet until the launch of the first Moroccan satellite to monitor the Earth, and “The launch of a high-tech satellite in Morocco in November 2017 concerns for both Algeria and Spain, which will prompt them to take more caution”.

French company Arianespace in Guyana said that a “Vega” rocket placed the Satellite “Mohammed VI” in orbit to observe the earth and the rocket took off the from the Kourou Space Center in Guyana.

The French newspaper quoted “Russia Today” on its website as saying that the Satellite is able to take pictures of quality up to seventy centimeters from anywhere on the surface of the globe and send it to the control station in less than 24 hours.

Thus Morocco becomes the first African country to have a satellite that is capable of monitoring and reconnaissance with high accuracy and quality, and if the few official available information confirm only a civilian use, the Moroccan satellite actually enjoys military applications.

The same newspaper quoted the French National Space Center as saying; “Such images can also be used to locate enemy military installations in order to plan military intervention”.

“As long as we are able to follow what is happening on the road and rail networks, this means that we can actually use it in intelligence”, Françoise Masson, Head of the PLEIADES project at the National Center for Space Studies, said.

Mohamed VI satellite is one of the first of two satellites which will be launched in 2018 and will be orbited at a distance of 694 km from the ground, enabling them to send 500 pictures a day to be sorted by a team in Rabat.

Information that is provided by Le Monde and was preceded by Spain’s Al Pais, undermines Rabat’s assurances a few days ago, by Moroccan government’s spokesman, Mostapha al-Khalfi, who said; “Our neighbors should not be concerned because it is a legitimate and required step that should not be a cause of fear for anyone”.