Israel will be using an Indian space launch vehicle to place its satellite in orbit in the next fiscal. Though Israel has several satellites of its own, it does not have any launch vehicle. "This is for the first time that an Indian vehicle will be used to launch an Israeli space payload,' the Ambassador of Israel, Mr David Danieli, said during a brief visit here today. The satellite to be launched is the TAUVEX UV telescope, designed to gather data for astronomy. A memorandum of understanding in this regard was signed with the Indian Space Research Organisation by the Israel's Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Eliezer Sandberg, as far back as December 2003.