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In August, satellite imagery showed a series of extensive earthen walls being constructed around the city, aimed at trapping people inside.

"This was a great day for SpaceX, executing its full mission for the first time and deploying some test dummy satellites along the route," says Dr Simeon Barber, a planetary scientist at the Open University.

But new videos and satellite images show that markers placed by Israeli troops in two areas to mark the divide have been positioned hundreds of metres deeper inside the strip than the expected withdrawal line.

The three companies, Airbus, Leonardo and Thales, will pool their interests in areas such as space exploration, earth observation, space threats and satellite navigation.

In the third quarter, Thales’s space joint venture with Italy’s Leonardo, Thales Alenia Space, signed an initial-phase contract with a consortium of satellite operators to devise IRIS, a new satellite constellation for the European Union.