23 hours ago by Tracy Staedter

The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are reporting that Iraqi insurgents have hacked into military spy drone video using an inexpensive, off-the-shelf computer program called Skygrabber, which was developed by the Russian company SkySoftware to intercept music, ...

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11 days ago by Mc Parry

PARIS – France plans to launch a military spy satellite on Wednesday, the defence ministry said, as Paris boosts spending on its independent surveillance from space despite closer military co-operation with the United States. Ariane 5 rocket This will be the first such launch under President Nicolas ...

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17 days ago by Dave Pugliese

On the weekend I posted about the launch of a Japanese spy satellite. Now the Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the optical satellite was launched to gather intelligence on North Korea's military and nuclear programmes, and is used in tandem with a radar satellite to continuously procure infor ...

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18 days ago by AO

technobahnに『 Japan launches fifth spy satellite successfully』とあり、 Japan launched the Information Gathering Satellite (IGS 5) Saturday successfully into orbit. IGS 5 aboard the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 16 (H-IIA F16) at 10:21 a.m. on from the Tanegashima Space Center. IGS is a satellite in a Japanese ...

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19 days ago by Dave Pugliese

Stephen Clark of Spaceflight Now is reporting today on Japan’s launch of a new spy satellite. Here is what he writes: “In an unpublicized launch lacking fanfare, an H-2A rocket successfully boosted Japan's most advanced spy satellite to orbit on Saturday from the country's island space center. The 1 ...

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20 days ago by Mc Parry

TOKYO — Japan on Saturday launched a next-generation spy satellite as part of efforts to beef up its surveillance system against the threat of North Korea’s missiles, officials said. An H-2A rocket carrying a spy satellite lifts off from a space center on the southern island of Tanegashima,...

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35 days ago by kalel

Iran is ready to launch its second homemade spy satellite, with the Safir 2 rocket (Messenger of Ambassador) already in position on its pad, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report. The new satellite weighs 200 kgs, ten times more than Omid 1 (Hope), which was successfully tested only t ...

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46 days ago by TMO

World Tribune TEL AVIV — Turkey was said to have suspended up to $1 billion in proposed Israeli defense projects after canceling a major air exercise with Israel. A leading Israeli defense analyst said the government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has decided to end defense and military coo ...

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64 days ago by spacejunkie

A nearly universal myth tells the story of US and Russian Spy Satellites being able to read car number plates and the headlines of newspapers being held on a sidewalk clearly, but is that true? Here is the truth.

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144 days ago by Michael

This weekend you should try to get out and look for the International Space Station as it does a fly-over. The space shuttle Endeavour is working on STS-127 and is currently docked with the ISS. With the added real estate of the shuttle along with the new solar arrays the ISS is bright with reflecte ...

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