Rocket hiccup puts US spy sats in wrong orbit
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Cockup rather than conspiracy at NRO In an expensive technical mishap, a brace of top-secret American spy satellites was fired into incorrect orbits last Friday.â¦
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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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Whatever's going on, China and Russia condemn it Russia and China have expressed concern over US plans to fire interceptors at a malfunctioning American spy satellite in coming weeks before it plunges fully into the Earth's atmosphere. Meanwhile, it has emerged that Washington launched a crash effort to destroy the spacecraft early in the New Year, less than a fortnight after it was launched and failed to come online.â¦
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An Ariane rocket lifted off Saturday from a pad in South America to place France's third military spy satellite into orbit, Arianespace said.
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Military opt to act... now crash imminent over US soil The US military is putting into effect contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could actually hit North America.â¦
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Commercial space race not quite up to speed A privately funded rocket, bound for orbit, has crashed into the New Mexico desert after something went wrong at 40,000 feet.â¦
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A rocket carrying an intelligence-gathering payload for the Pentagon suffered a technical problem after its launch, officials said. But they were confident Saturday that its secretive mission would be performed.
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Military opt to act...now crash imminent over US The US military is putting into effect contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could actually hit North America.â¦
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An attempt to blast a crippled U.S. spy satellite out of the sky using a Navy heat-seeking missile Â possibly on Wednesday night Â would be the first real-world use of this piece of the Pentagon's missile defense network. But that is not the mission for which it was intended.
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TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico  - The launch of   a commercial rocket in New Mexico that the organizers hope will   usher in a new era of cheap public access to space was delayed   on Monday because of an electrical problem.
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By israelinsider staff September 7, 2004. The loss yesterday of the Ofek-6 spy satellite, due to a malfunction in its Shavit rocket launcher, is expected to delay Israel&#39;s plans for more sophisticated surveillance
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A US-Russian crew had to turn off autopilot yesterday and manually moor its Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station after an unidentified glitch resulted
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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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Tucked into the Bush administration's space policy is a plan to take the global positioning system offline temporarily during a national emergency. The goal: preventing terrorists from using the navigational technology.
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By JAN SLIVA LUXEMBOURG - As European Union ministers consider how to get the problem-plagued Galileo satellite navigation system into orbit, one man who has been there had some simple advice - do it fast, or the Chinese will steal the show.
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The nation's top spy announced he canceled a controversial, $9 billion dollar spy satellite program. Congressional critics called the Misty satellite ineffective and redundant.
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The Bush administration's attempt to shoot down an out-of-control spy satellite as early as this evening will help the military advance its anti-missile and anti-satellite planning and technology, according to space weapons experts and analysts. Both fields are of high interest to the military and...