U.S. Spy Satellite Is Falling Earthward
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A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit Earth in late February or March, government officials said yesterday.
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An attempt by Israel to launch a sophisticated spy satellite into space failed Monday afternoon, the Defense Ministry announced. According to a statement, the rocket, known as a Shavit I, failed in its third stage.
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The Pentagon is considering whether to shoot down a failed spy satellite that could come crashing back to Earth by March, senior U.S. military officials said today. "There aren't a whole lot of other options," an official said. But these officials would not elaborate on how they would hit the satellite.
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A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday.
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Spy chief Mike McConnell has junked a multibillion-dollar spy satellite that engineers hoped would some day pass undetected above other nations.
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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.
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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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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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A rocket carrying an Israeli spy satellite intended to boost the Jewish state&#39;s surveillance over arch-enemy Iran crashed into the sea shortly after liftoff on Monday, officials and defense sources said.
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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 rocket carrying an Israeli spy satellite crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, officials said. The Defense Ministry blamed a malfunction in the third stage of the rocket, which took off from an air base in Israel.
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The Pentagon plans to shoot down a disabled 5,000-pound spy satellite before it enters the atmosphere in early March, a Pentagon official said.
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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., Dec. 11 - Air Force and NASA officials scrapped the scheduled launch of a new surveillance satellite this morning after technicians found a software glitch that would have left the vehicle without adequate solar power.
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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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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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The Pentagon is planning to fire a missile at a rogue spy satellite that was due to fall to earth early next month
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A dead U.S. spy satellite in a deteriorating orbit is expected to hit the Earth the first week of March, officials said yesterday.