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France to launch another military spy satellite

07 Dec 2009 10:59:21 PST

As to the intelligence information captured by the new satellite, France has signed data exchanging contracts with Italy and Germany, local media reported. ... Ariane rocket to launch French spy satelliteReuters India Spy satellites get a touch of Paris chicScotsman

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Ariane rocket to launch French spy satellite

07 Dec 2009 03:07:13 PST

While cooperating more closely with the United States on military planning, France sees independent access to space intelligence as a strategic priority. ... and more »

Original story at Reuters .

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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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Iran Fed Up with Italians + Russians — Will Launch Their Own ComSat

23 Nov 2009 00:02:32 PST

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. ...

Original story at SatNews Publishers .

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Iran Plans to Launch Satellite by 2011

20 Nov 2009 08:42:19 PST

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 »

Original story at FOX News .

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india's eye in the sky military RISAT-2 launched giving military surveillance

21 Oct 2009 23:17:32 PDT

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

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Spy satellite news and blogs - December 08, 2009

08 Dec 2009 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.

• Grunts Get Spy Sats of Their Own -- from Wired News
• Earthquake in Indonesia...Death toll lowered in Russian train derailment -- from 9&10 News
• Japan launches 5th spy satellite -- from The Associated Press
• Soyuz rocket launches military payload -- from Spaceflight Now
• Obama, Lee warn North Korea -- from Washington Post
• Bright send-off for a shadowy spy -- from WA today
• Johann Hari: We're covering our planet with a cloud of space junk -- from Independent
• Secret Satellite Set for Launch in Summer -- from AllGov
• Lakeside Wheelers -- from Westmeath Examiner
• Israel, India strengthen cooperation to serve both interests -- from Xinhua

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Medea Program: Releases Gov't Top-Secret Global Warming Pics

30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

universe. In this case the spy satellite pictures of melting Arctic ice have fifteen times better resolution than the wimpy scientific satellites ... current.com

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US Official: No Sign North Korea Restarting Plutonium Process

27 May 2009 13:09:59 PDT

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 ...

Original story at NASDAQ .

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India-Israel Defence Nexus Deepens

13 May 2009 06:48:30 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Mainstream Weekly .

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When will spy satellite start sending images?

24 Apr 2009 02:44:23 PDT

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. ...

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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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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

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Japan satellite to track greenhouse gas

23 Jan 2009 16:53:58 PST

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 ...

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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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China’s BX-1 microsatellite: a litmus test for space weaponization

20 Oct 2008 09:28:31 PDT

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 ...

Original story at The Space Review .

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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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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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