Tag: spy satellite
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Dirigible Drones Will Watch the World From 13 Miles Up
from wired.com: With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do just that. Designed to be about the length of a…
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U.S. Air Force Reveals ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Spy Satellite Program
from reuters.com: The United States plans to launch a pair of satellites to keep tabs on spacecraft from other countries orbiting 22,300 miles above the planet, as well as to track space debris, the head of Air Force Space Command said. The previously classified Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) will supplement ground-based radars and…
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Rocket roars to life at Vandenberg with secret orbital payload
from latimes.com: A 19-story-tall rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base late Thursday night, carrying a secret payload for the U.S. government. An Atlas V rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 3 at 11:15 p.m. PST, lighting up the night sky as it roared into orbit. The mission was carried out by United Launch…
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Covert US-China Space Wars: 2012 and Beyond
Readers must challenge imaginations to resist media attempts to set terms of discussion! BBC caused a recent flap with article, “X-37B spaceplane ‘spying on China’,” observing X-37B and Tiangong 1 are in very similar orbits!
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NROL-49 Mission Patch: Space Glyphs
The Delta IV heavy NROL-49 rocket launched recently from Vandenberg AFB. The spectacular launch provided by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a group of well-known defense contractors, can be viewed here.
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china shooting at US spy sats?
Are Space Wars already happening now? Chris Everard, a British filmmaker, believes so and recaps in “Secret Space Vol. 2, part 1/13 on You Tube” a December 2006 Nexus Magazine issue, which contained republished news reports about China firing lasers at US government satellites! The present writer wonders about two more overt acts such as…