Spy satellite

 United States A US spy satellite spotted a special ICBM transport train moving from the manufacturing plant (near Pyongyang) to the Musudan-ri test site and staying there for a few days before returning," it quoted a government source as saying. ...

 Australia The rocket, which has been standing on the launch pad since early last year, was originally to have been launched in December but was delayed after another spy satellite suffered technical problems. NROL-29's launch was reportedly pushed back so ...

 UK For example, in March 2007, the wreckage of a Soviet spy satellite nearly crashed into a passenger plane over the Pacific. But only one woman has ever been hit by space junk: Lottie Williams from Oklahoma was smacked in the shoulder by a charred piece ...

 CA Cape Canaveral, where the secretive launch is scheduled to take place, has been increasingly used this year by the military for spy satellite missions. Three military flights already have lifted off in 2009 from the Florida site, with as many as five ...

That could include military or spy satellite data, or radar readings. Private companies will most likely be brought in to help with the recovery as well. If the history of at-sea air crashes is any guide, cracking the case could take months or years, ...

 France 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 ...

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 ...

From a spy satellite view, "Spy Game" finds Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) getting tossed in a Chinese prison and awaiting execution in twenty-four hours when an attempt to free a female acquaintance fails miserably. His mentor, Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) is ...

 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. ...

 India He said: “there is nothing like a spy satellite in our agenda. We have only earth observation satellite, communication satellite and scientific satellite. RISAT-2 is another earth observation satellite. I want to clarify that”. ...

America's secret spy satellite system. Boyce gained access to the “black box” that held telex messages with CIA headquarters in Langley. Boyce and his childhood chum Andrew Daulton Lee began selling intelligence to Soviet officials in Mexico City. ...

 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 ...

“The launching of Israeli spy satellites is just one aspect of this collaboration which is part of the overall India-Israel-US axis. The launch of an Israeli-made spy satellite and the trilateral joint naval exercises off the coast of Japan are the two ...

 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 After the successful launch of the moon mission, Chandrayaan-1 and the spy satellite, India's ISRO is now gearing up for a mission to the sun. The proposed sun mission christened as "Mission Aditya", which is aimed at unraveling the secrets of the sun. ...

BBC - 'Barefaced' Broadcasting Corporation Obviously a rational mind would also agree that the spy satellite launched just a few days ago by India would have contradicted this aerial footage if it was found to be false! This is an example of the biased and blatant misinforming and ...

 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 ...

 Israel DEBKAfile's military sources report that India rushed through its order for the Israeli Aerospace Industries all-weather, 24-hour surveillance TecSAR after 10 gunmen murdered 165 people in Mumbai last November, including five Israelis. ...

 India This is the 15th flight of ISRO's workhorse PSLV, which had launched 30 satellites (14 for India and 16 for foreign countries) into a variety of orbits since 1993. The launch vehicle carries two payloads -- RISAT-2 (with all weather capability to take ...

The report comes among increasing intelligence concerns that the LTTE may try to move its fighting cadres under threat of defeat by the Army troops to Tamil Nadu and other South India states. The news report points out Tamil Nadu is a place where the ... India to launch spy satellite VOVNews.vn

 India India to launch IAI-built spy satellite on 20 April domain-B India to launch Israeli-made spy satellite on April 20 People's Daily Online India to place spy satellite to guard its borders against infiltration Khabrein.info

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The national intelligence director and defense secretary are asking the Obama administration to approve a new top-secret spy satellite program that could cost more than $10 billion, according to government, military and industry ...

 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 ...

 FL Making matters worse, DSP-23 died before it could be nudged into a graveyard orbit, where it would no longer be a collision threat for other satellites. The satellite is one of a constellation of Earth-staring spacecraft designed to spot orbits rocket ...

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. ...

 China The information will help China readjust the position of its satellites if necessary. Space collisions have occurred in the past, though not between two intact spacecraft. In 1996, a French spy satellite ran into the remains of an Ariane V16 rocket ...

 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.

 MD - Oct 20, 2008 The direct ascent ASATs which were used to destroy the Fengyun 1C weather satellite in January 2007 and the USA 193 spy satellite in February 2008 were ...

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 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...