Spy satellite

The Awakening FOXNews (blog) Nor did spy satellite tracking devices, clandestine CIA operatives, a military surge in Iraq, the interrogation of al-Qaida operatives at Guantanamo Bay or ... and more »

California space tourism rocket builder XCOR in deal for launches from South Korea Gaea Times (blog) 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 »

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 »

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

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

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

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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 »

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

This is the source of the Army's Kestrel Eye spy satellite program, which is exploring the possibilities offered by smaller sats. Big satellites are ...

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 »

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

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

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

satellites can also be used for military purposes. Israeli media claim the new Iranian satellite, named Misbah, or Lantern in Farsi, is a spy satellite. ...

Trend News Agency Tehran says the satellite will help data communication, but Israeli media have claimed that it's a spy satellite. Iran announced a couple weeks ago that ... Iran to launch satellite on its own by late 2011The Associated Press all 134 news articles »

NEW DELHI: India's launch of the military spy satellite RISAT-2 is not just about the synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which will give such ... desivideonetwork.com

The media reports referred to US spy satellite images, but commercial satellite photos released Wednesday showed no steam coming from the plant, a US arms control institute said. North Korea uses a coal-fired plant to generate steam for work at the ...

 Sri Lanka The US government's most ambitious spy satellite program “Future Imagery Architecture” (FIA) designed to equip the NGA with state-of-the-art imagery failed after five years of R&D by Boeing, at a cost of than $10 billion, forcing the NGA to get its raw ...

 India However, India has not neglected defence either, as shown by ISRO's recent launch of the Israeli-built RISAT-2 spy satellite on its PSLV launch workhorse, along with the peaceful, student-built micro satellite Anusat. It must be said to the credit of ...

 India Israel's spy satellite, launched by India in the third week of January 2008, has considerably enhanced Israel's intelligence gathering capacity. The launch of the Tecsar satellite, also known as Poliaris, opened a new stage in India-Israeli strategic ...

 India It was clear from reports worldwide that the main payload of the mission, a 300-kilogram radar imaging satellite called RISAT-2, was a microwave-based high-resolution imaging reconnaissance (or spy) satellite, which India had procured from Israel. ...

an Israeli radar and is in all probability a tecsar satellite procured off-shelf from the government-owned Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI), almost identical to the highly publicised spy satellite launched for Israel by ISRO on January 21, 2008. ...

 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 ...

 India The chief spokesperson of ISRO, S Satish has said, "Both the satellites are being tracked continuously and the first set of images from RISAT-2 are expected next week. I am happy to say that they are performing satisfactorily. ...

 India By Our Correspondent, New Delhi, April 22, 2009: Indian spy satellite launched two days ago can see even number plates of cars. This is a great achievement for a nation that has seen terrorist attacks very frequently. By using the satellite fully India ... Spy in the Sky? Khaleej Times

 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. ...

India launches spy satellite India's existing satellites get blinded at night and in the monsoon season. The new acquisition will also provide New Delhi with the capability to track incoming hostile ballistic missiles. India treated Israel like a pariah for decades, but has forged ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the US spy satellite agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, has announced his resignation, a spokesman said on Thursday. Scott Large sent a memo to NRO employees on Wednesday announcing his decision, ... Spy satellite tally could increase FCW.com

By AP / PAMELA HESS Wednesday, Apr. 08, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration on Tuesday approved the purchase of pricey new spy satellites and will buy more commercial imagery from the private sector to plug immediate gaps in satellite coverage ...

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. ...

Voice of America US, South Korean and Japanese officials — who monitored the launch from nearby warships and high-resolution spy satellite cameras — have said they suspect the North was really testing long-range ballistic missile technology that could be used to carry ...

 India In the spy satellite case, government investigations revealed that TRW Inc, which Northrop Grumman acquired in 2002, failed to test, or qualify, micro-electronic parts for spy satellites it was supplying under contract to the National Reconnaissance ...

 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 ...

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

 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. ...

 Philippines Tokyo suffered a high-profile setback in 2003 when it was forced to destroy a rocket carrying a spy satellite after lift-off because a booster failed to separate. Japan, like China and India, has been stepping up its space operations and is currently ...

BBC News  - Tokyo suffered a high-profile setback in 2003 when it was forced to destroy a rocket carrying a spy satellite after lift-off because a booster failed to ... North Korea calls for checking Japanese moves for Space Militarization ISRIA (subscription) all 570 news articles

 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 ...

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...

2008 year in review: Big news, small news and in between cleveland.com, OH - 20: A Navy missile soaring at 17000 mph, 130 miles above the Pacific, destroys a falling US spy satellite the size of a school bus, loaded with a ...

 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 ...

 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 ...

The German military established its own spy satellite system by commissioning its first synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) system in Grafschaft, a small town in western Germany, on Thursday. more... | PDA The German military established its own spy satellite system by commissioning its fir...

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...

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.

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... :)

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...

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 ...

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...

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...