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Top Secret Spy Satellite Launched from China The CNSA has kept everything ...

The new addition is believed to be sporting high-resolution cameras, alongside advanced radar reconnaissance capabilities. The spacecraft was developed by ...
Fri, Dec 11 | from Softpedia

Launch of French Spy Satellite Delayed

Launching another spy satellite is meant to strengthen France's military intelligence as well as demonstrate independence from the US in the field of ... French military satellite launch rescheduledXinhua France delays launch of spy satellite from Ariane rocketFrance24
Wed, Dec 9 | from Epoch Times

California-based Sea Launch Co. launches satellite from Kazakhstan

Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said. ... and more »
Mon, Nov 30 | from Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Technology Blog

Police hope Woods can answer questions about accident

Tokyo – Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit today in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said. ...
Sat, Nov 28 | from The Spokesman Review

Japan launches 5th spy satellite

Boston Globe TOKYO — Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit Saturday in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said. ... Japan launches spy satellite under veil of secrecySpaceflight Now Japan launches new spy satelliteAFP
Fri, Nov 27 | from google.com

Spy satellites lose their mystique

Instead, the senators propose that another current-generation spy satellite be acquired and that a whole new type of spacecraft, based on distributed ...
Mon, Nov 23 | from The Space Review

Has anybody seen our satellite?

MD This time, unlike the previous two attempts, the spacecraft included the General Electric Satellite Recovery Vehicle, or SRV, which was supposed to eventually return exposed spy satellite film from orbit once the CORONA camera system was ready. ...
Mon, Apr 20 | from The Space Review

US intel chief proposes building new spy satellite

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government wants to build a new generation of spy satellites and will buy more commercial imagery from the private sector to plug immediate gaps in satellite coverage, the top US intelligence official said Tuesday. ...
Tue, Apr 7 | from google.com

Battle’s Laws

MD Discoverer was a cover story for the Corona reconnaissance satellite program. Corona was many months away from readiness and before the spooks put a spy satellite atop a rocket, they wanted to make sure that the rocket and spacecraft would work ...
Mon, Mar 23 | from The Space Review

The Orbital Menace - Space Garbage

IGN In 1996, a French spy satellite called Cerise was orbiting several hundred kilometers above earth when suddenly a heavy object, about the size of an average suitcase, appeared out of the darkness and crashed into the satellite at a violent speed. ... Billiards in space The Space Review
Tue, Feb 24 | from The Future of Things

Billiards in space

MD followed a year later by the destruction of an ailing spy satellite by the United States in February 2008. The most recent event was the first-ever accidental collision between two satellites in Earth orbit, which took place on February 10, 2009. ...
Sun, Feb 22 | from The Space Review

Ike’s gambit: The KH-8 reconnaissance satellite

MD - But what the farmer had found in his field were apparently pieces of a KH-8 GAMBIT high-resolution spy satellite that had fallen to Earth only a short time ...
Mon, Jan 12 | from The Space Review

Top 10 Things Launched Into Space in 2008

In a giant kaboom, the U.S. Navy destroyed a broken American spy satellite by launching a heat seeking missile to collide with it on orbit. The bus-sized spy sat, USA-193, proved to be a dud shortly after it was launched, and was deemed by the military too great a risk to be left alone, since if it...
Mon, Jan 5 | from Wired

Your chance to spot doomed spy in sky

A spy satellite has hit the headlines because it is due to crash back to Earth over the next few weeks. But you may not realise that you can easily spot this "top secret" craft for yourself. USA 193 regularly flies over Europe and the Americas. It will be clearly visible this week from Skymania's...
Fri, Nov 7 | from Skymania Log

Patch: could the GeoEye-1 spy satellite have a "classified mode" ?

2. an "encrypted" military/higher accuracy mode well, my question is: could the Google Intelligence Agency GeoEye-1 new spy satellite have also a VERY HI-RES "classified mode" ? Google Intelligence Agency logo/patch/parody... :)
Wed, Oct 15 | from new goos

Podcast: Audio Book Review: Infinite Crisis - Part I by Geoff Johns and DC Comics

We enter the story just as the Justice League of America's watchtower has been destroyed and the heroes of the world are facing a variety of menaces. Maxwell Lord, the head of the O.M.A.C. project -- a super-spy satellite that has been gathering information on the super heroes -- found out that t...
Sun, Apr 29 | from Blogcritics