France Puts a Spy Satellite in the Space
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France enhanced their arsenal for their internal security when they launched a surveillance satellite from a launch pad in French Guyana.
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French doctors are carrying out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero-gravity, using a specially-adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
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When NASAs Genesis solar-wind sample return capsule skyrockets from space next week and drops into the Utah Test and Training Range, that landmark in civilian space draws upon a once classified satellite snooping program.
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PARIS France says a satellite placed in orbit today gives it new abilities to spy worldwide. The Helios Two-A military satellite was launched from French Guiana and put in orbit along with six smaller scientific ones about an hour later.
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Russia successfully launches Europe's most powerful telecommunications satellite.
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A large spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit earth in late February or March, government officials said.
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Japan launches a rocket carrying its third spy satellite, increasing its ability to monitor North Korea.
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PARIS  - An Ariane rocket blasted off Saturday from a pad in South America to place France's third military spy satellite into orbit, Arianespace said.
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When NASAâs Genesis solar-wind sample return capsule skyrockets from space next week and drops into the Utah Test and Training Range, that landmark in civilian space draws upon a once classified satellite snooping program.
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Urgent: Japan launches spy satellite with H-2A rocket    TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Japan launched a spy satellite with an H-2A rocket on Monday from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan's Kagoshima prefecture, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
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A Japanese government panel has approved plans to send two spy satellites into Earth's orbit beginning next year, a media report said Wednesday.
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An Atlas 3 rocket lifted off into space early Thursday carrying a secret military payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that oversees the nation's constellation of spy satellites.
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A European satellite designed to improve weather forecasting has been given a new launch date.
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Taking a page from Hollywood science fiction, the Pentagon said Thursday it will try to shoot down a dying, bus-size U.S. spy satellite loaded with toxic fuel on a collision course with the Earth. The military hopes to smash the satellite as soon as next week Â just before it enters Earth's atmosphere Â with a single missile fired from a Navy cruiser in the northern Pacific Ocean.
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A European Ariane rocket launched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, the third in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky" independent of the United States.
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Israel's military launched a spy satellite early Monday, the Defense Ministry said, and a senior official suggested it could help keep track of developments in Iran.
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PARIS - Canada's Radarsat-2 Earth observation satellite, which has been almost a decade in design and construction, launched successfully Friday aboard a Russian Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to launch-services provider Starsem S.A. of France.