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Monday, Nov 23
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 ...
Tuesday, May 26
Making lemons into lemonade
MD The memos don't explain an important fact: that any such mission would probably result in unwanted attention to the United States' spy satellite program. After all, the photographs would be released and would reveal significant detail, prompting people ...
Monday, Apr 27
Sustainability: just another excuse for a UN power grab?
In contrast, all the fragments from the February 2008 US intercept of a wayward spy satellite have harmlessly reentered the atmosphere. For those who are trying to cripple US military space power the issue is not the risk of accidents, but the desire ...
Robotic ravens: American ferret satellite operations during the ...
MD - Dwayne Day, Dwayne Day The opinion within the US intelligence community is that GRAB was a smashing success because the Russians thought that it was simply an innocent scientific satellite studying the sun rather than a spy satellite. But compared to their winged ferret ...
Monday, Apr 20
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. ...
Monday, Mar 23
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 ...
Sunday, Feb 22
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. ...
Monday, Jan 12
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 ...
Monday, Dec 15
Death of a monster
MD - Dec 15, 2008 As big as a Greyhound bus, when it debuted in 1971 it was so much larger than any previous spy satellite that those associated with it referred to the ...
