US Air Force launches a GPS satellite
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The US Air Force launched a global positioning system satellite Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was the 12th successful launch of the new-generation GPS IIR spacecraft.
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A US warship is moving into position to try to shoot down an out-of-control US spy satellite as early as Wednesday before it tumbles into the Earth's atmosphere, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
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The Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday, officials said, in a test flight that blasted open a 105-ton silo door for the first time in years.
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The Air Force is scheduled to launch a new Delta 4 rocket on Saturday in a test that will help determine whether it can become a vehicle to carry billion-dollar military satellites.
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A prototype satellite  repair robot that can refuel, upgrade and repair satellites was  launched from Florida on Thursday night to begin a three-month  orbital field test.
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A Boeing Co. Delta 2 rocket successfully launched a new US Air Force Global Positioning Satellite into orbit from Florida Saturday.
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Anything to stop it hitting eBay The US Navy will attempt to shoot down a malfunctioning American spy satellite before it falls to Earth, the Pentagon has confirmed. The plan has been approved by President George Bush, citing concern over toxic hydrazine fuel aboard the spacecraft. However, a top analyst has suggested the US is actually worried about secret technology winding up for sale on the web.â¦
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The US military is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite due to crash land on Earth, a report says.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 8  /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched six satellites at 10:10 p.m., EST, for the U.S. Air Force, marking the first use of the Atlas for an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program mission.
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U.S. launches rocket carrying two satellites into space    WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- A rocket carrying two experimental satellites for U.S. Air Force and NASA was launched into space at 7:00 a.m.
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By SONJA BARISIC  ATLANTIC, Va. - Monday morning's scheduled launch of a rocket carrying satellites for the Air Force and NASA was called off, according to NASA spokesman Keith Koehler.  No other details were immediately available.
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A massive new Boeing rocket lumbered from its seaside pad Tuesday on a mission to prove the vehicle is capable of lofting super-sized military satellites into orbit.
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Russia's GLONASS system, which uses Soviet Cold War-era military technology, is designed to compete with the Global Positioning System.
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The U.S. Navy could shoot down an errant spy satellite as early as Wednesday night. Now a new computer model shows what might happen.
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By Laurent Marot KOUROU, French Guiana  - A European Ariane rocketlaunched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, thethird in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky"independent of the United States.
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WASHINGTON -- The Boeing Co., the second-biggest US defense contractor, won a $54 million contract to launch four navigation satellites for the Air Force in the second exception to a ban imposed on the company last year.
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A cluster of Air Force research satellites rocketed into space Thursday night.