New German military reconnaissance satellites face unresolved technical problems that have prevented full operation for months, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said on Friday. Two of the three satellites of the SARah system have not yet been put into operational service “due to technical limitations,” the spokesman said. The SARah satellite system is based on an imaging radar technique known as synthetic aperture radar. It allows military reconnaissance independent of time of day and weather. In January, the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, announced a partial operational deploymen…