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  According to Haaretz, Israel Aerospace Industries has been chosen to provide Azerbaijan with two satellites for $120 million. In an interview with Times of Israel, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who just visited Baku, acknowledged that Azerbaijan "chose an Israeli company in a satellite procurement deal." Two communications satellites and one observation satellite are used by Azerbaijan. One year before the observation satellite was supposed to finish its mission, Azercosmos, the country's space agency, revealed last week that it had lost contact with the satellite. The issue, according to Azercosmos, was caused by a meteorite or space debris damaging the spacecraft. The agency and the satellite's maker, Airbus, tried to reestablish communication, but they were unable. The agency announced that the Azersky observation satellite's mission was complete after nine years. "The satellite transmitted more than 80,000 images in a volume of half a peta...