Spy SatellitesThe Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 15.12.2002 - 64 Seiten Imagine being able to use satellites to count an enemy nation s troops and missiles, to eavesdrop on communications between terrorists, or to locate a dictator s top-secret chemical-weapons lab and direct missiles to its exact location to destroy it. This may sound like the futuristic world of fictional techno-thrillers, but today s top-secret spy satellites are already capable of these activities and far more. Paul Kupperberg delves past the forbidding wall of government secrecy to get the facts on the history of the U.S. spy satellite program, its current capabilities, and its future possibilities. |
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Seite 13 - Congress the national commitment to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade.
Seite 4 - BA made its first passenger-carrying 'operational assessment flight' from Heathrow. But the date proved memorable primarily for the epochal terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC.
Seite 10 - ' artificial satellite ' ' at the correct distance from the earth would make one revolution every 24 hours; ie, it would remain stationary above the same spot and would be within optical range of nearly half the earth's surface. Three repeater stations, 120 degrees apart in the correct orbit, could give television and microwave coverage to the entire planet.
Seite 10 - The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Seite 39 - NRO products can warn of potential trouble spots around the world, help plan military operations, and monitor the environment.
Seite 12 - Although the United States launched its first satellite, Explorer I, on January 31, 1958, its payload was miniscule by comparison.
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