This year's sixth Chinese spy satellite was launched into orbit on Monday, from the Taiyuan launching center in northern China's Shanxi province, on a Long March 4C rocket.This is the tenth Yaogan mission, and follows the March launch of three spacecrafts, that are believed to be naval observation satellite... |
11 August 2010
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Almost four decades of Japan using the space for non-military applications are about to end on Friday with the introduction of a bill said to give the military space access. The action came with the visit of the Chinese President Hu Jiantao, whose country shot down one of its weather satellites last year, spreading f... |
12 May 2008
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Plans for destroying the USA-193 spy satellite started pouring in as soon as January 4th and, on February 12th, the president of the US, George Walter Bush, approved the plan at a cost of an excess of 40 million dollars. On Thursday, February 14th, the plan to destroy the spy satellite was put into action with the la... |
29 February 2008
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The U.S. officials were very evasive in their press statement released on Saturday, which could be related to the fact that the giant orbiter is a spy satellite. It is unclear when the satellite lost power or when and where it will hit the Earth. What is known is that it cannot be controlled anymore, is quickly decay... |
28 January 2008
02:47 GMT |
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