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China completes 2009 schedule by launching another spy satellite

15 Dec 2009 03:21:51 PST

However, experts have revealed the bird is the latest to be equipped with reconnaissance hardware. The new satellite is intended for “scientific experiments ... and more »

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Struggling Spy Satellite Agency Tries to Right Itself

14 Dec 2009 13:25:42 PST

SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for developing and launching the US fleet of spy satellites ...

Original story at National Defense Magazine .

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

11 Dec 2009 22:57:09 PST

The new addition is believed to be sporting high-resolution cameras, alongside advanced radar reconnaissance capabilities. The spacecraft was developed by ...

Original story at Softpedia .

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Launch of French Spy Satellite Delayed

09 Dec 2009 21:23:25 PST

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

Original story at Epoch Times . Related stories include: New Date Set For French Spy Satellite Launch - New York Times , New date set for French spy satellite launch - Reuters UK and ... CCTV , Xinhua

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A missing F-22 and a spy satellite

08 Dec 2009 02:12:13 PST

launch complex on Tanegashima Island designated "F16" - means that Japan now has three optical spy satellites and one radar spy satellite in operation. ...

Original story at Asia Times Online .

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California-based Sea Launch Co. launches satellite from Kazakhstan

30 Nov 2009 13:46:13 PST

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 »

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Spy satellite news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Spy satellite news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• The Awakening - FOXNews -- from blog
• French military satellite shot into space -- from CCTV
• France launches new spy satellite -- from Victoria Times Colonist
• France launches new spy satellite -- from Windsor Star
• California space tourism rocket builder XCOR in deal for launches from South Korea - Gaea Times -- from blog
• France poised to launch spy satellite, helps tighten anti-Hamas blockade -- from DEBKA file
• New Date Set For French Spy Satellite Launch -- from New York Times
• New date set for French spy satellite launch -- from Reuters UK
• Chinese Rocket Launches With Top Secret Spy Satellite -- from Space.com
• China Lifts Off Rocket With A Spy Satellite. - Military Technologies -- from blog

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Police hope Woods can answer questions about accident

28 Nov 2009 13:09:00 PST

Tokyo – Japan launched its fifth spy satellite into orbit today in a bid to boost its ability to independently gather intelligence, the government said. ...

Original story at The Spokesman Review .

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Japan launches 5th spy satellite

27 Nov 2009 23:10:27 PST

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

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Spy satellites lose their mystique

23 Nov 2009 06:47:42 PST

Instead, the senators propose that another current-generation spy satellite be acquired and that a whole new type of spacecraft, based on distributed ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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Has anybody seen our satellite?

20 Apr 2009 07:43:55 PDT

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. ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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US intel chief proposes building new spy satellite

07 Apr 2009 14:00:55 PDT

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. ...

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Battle’s Laws

23 Mar 2009 04:10:31 PDT

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 ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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The Orbital Menace - Space Garbage

24 Feb 2009 15:33:11 PST

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

Original story at The Future of Things .

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Billiards in space

22 Feb 2009 16:42:22 PST

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. ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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Ike’s gambit: The KH-8 reconnaissance satellite

12 Jan 2009 09:03:58 PST

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 ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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Top 10 Things Launched Into Space in 2008

05 Jan 2009 07:16:32 PST

Written by Clara Moskowitz
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...

Original story at Wired .

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Death of a monster

15 Dec 2008 06:16:36 PST

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 ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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The Week in Review

05 Dec 2008 22:11:16 PST

OK - Dec 5, 2008 German’s first spy satellite system officially came online this week. The constellation of five satellites can provide images of any location on the globe ...

Original story at theTrumpet.com .

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Your chance to spot doomed spy in sky

07 Nov 2008 21:02:15 PST

Written by Paul Sutherland(noreply@blogger.com)
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...

Original story at Skymania Log .

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Spy Satellite Plummeting to earth

07 Nov 2008 20:11:06 PST

Written by NT Stargazer(noreply@blogger.com)
A few up-to-date reconnaissance satellite images have been declassified on occasion, or leaked, as in the case of KH-11 photographs which were sent to Jane’s Defense Weekly in 1985 exposing imagines of the Nicolaiev 444 shipyard in the Black Sea.

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

15 Oct 2008 13:32:00 PDT

Written by Mr.GoOS
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... :)

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Google Satellite Snaps First Hi-Res Image

10 Oct 2008 01:58:14 PDT

Written by Brian Heater
Don't get too nervous, though GeoEye's VP of marketing told Wired, "This is the opposite of a spy satellite. Spies don't put info on the Internet and sell imagery. We're an Earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our imagery to customers around the world who have a need to map and measure and...

Original story at Gearlog .

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Google’s GeoEye satellite takes first images of Kutztown ...

08 Oct 2008 18:44:36 PDT

Written by Justin Montgomery
“This is the opposite of a spy satellite,” stated Mark Brender, GeoEye’s vice president of communications and marketing. “Spies don’t put info on the internet and sell imagery. We’re an earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our ...

Original story at TECH.BLORGE.com .

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Bush Plays Target Practice With Falling U.S. Spy Satellite

14 Feb 2008 19:57:02 PST

Written by Jet in Columbus
In a move considered unnecessary by many experts, the Bush administration has recently decided to shoot down an uncooperative and secret American spy satellite. The pentagon and Gordon Johndroe at the NSC cited a large amount of unburned hydrazine rocket fuel on board as the reason that...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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

29 Apr 2007 21:58:47 PDT

Written by T. Michael Testi
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...

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