The last launch of 2022 is that of a blue-and-white, Israeli, satellite: On the morning of Friday, December 30, at 9:38 Israel time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California , carrying the advanced Earth Resources Observation Satellite C-3, or EROS C-3 for short. The satellite was developed by IAI and Elbit for the Israeli company ImageSat International – and it is expected to provide color images with unprecedented resolution to private customers.