Tokyo launches new spy satellite
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Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, which gives its the capability to observe any location around the globe.
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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.    If confirmed, the missions would be the first since late 2003 for Japan's ailing space program, which has suffered a slew of launch and mission failures...
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A rocket has been launched carrying a satellite to track and study the most powerful explosions seen in the universe since the Big Bang.
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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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Israel's sophisticated new spy satellite has begun transmitting images from space, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.
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China Sunday launched a satellite that will carry out land surveys and mapping for several days before returning to earth, the Xinhua news agency said.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, 10 September: The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency said Sunday it will launch a rocket carrying a spy satellite from Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture at 1:35 p.m. Monday.
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Scientists give details of a Japanese mission to investigate colossal explosions on the surface of the Sun.
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The U.S. Air Force quietly has put  into service a new weapon designed to jam enemy satellite  communications, a significant step toward U.S. control of  space.
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Selene satellite launched by Japan in most ambitious mission to moon since US Apollo flights.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 20  - NASA launched Saturday its Swift satellite, which will track huge explosions of gamma rays, the US space agency said.
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Bad weather, no new date set Bad weather has forced Japan to postpone the launch of a new spy satellite. Japanese space agency JAXA scrubbed the launch shortly before the rocket carrying the satellite was due to blast off from Tanegashima island.â¦
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India successfully launches an Israeli spy satellite, officials at Sriharikota space station in southern India say.
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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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Space weather research The Japanese Space Agency's (JAXA) Solar-B mission is set to launch tonight from the Uchinoura Space Centre in Japan. The satellite, which will study the solar surface for clues to the causes of solar flares, will be placed into a 96 minute polar orbit around Earth.â¦
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French defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie delivers her speech Saturday Dec.18, 2004 in Paris, after an Ariane rocket placed France&#39;s third military spy satellite into orbit.
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A satellite-alert system launches in quake-prone Japan that will instantly trigger tsunami and volcanic activity warnings by siren and radio to help speed evacuations. By the Associated Press.