Sentences with phrase «spy satellite»

A spy satellite?!

We didn't get to see any views of the spy satellite venturing deep in the orbits.

The rocket had taken off at 7:15 AM ET from LC - 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, loading a secret spy satellite NROL - 76 for the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office).

Using old spy satellite data from the 1960s, and comparing it to more recent imagery, he and his graduate students and colleagues have determined that tall shrubs, such as alder, willow, birch and dwarf pine, have expanded their range and grown taller, indicating that the tundra is undergoing change, likely as a result of increasing temperatures and loss of permafrost.

The writers tell us that images taken from a US spy satellite «reveal the devastating impact of global warming in the Arctic `.

The Navy sent a single missile skyward Wednesday night from an Aegis cruiser to destroy a falling spy satellite.

Perhaps the reality is the spy satellite was nuclear powered and had significant amounts of Plutonium onboard.

This is doubtful considering it's simply too easy; there are no countermeasures taken by a falling spy satellite.

Blasting a Spy in the Sky: The Pentagon insists that an Aegis missile cruiser blasted a descending spy satellite Wednesday night to avoid any risk of a big toxic blot from the hydrazine fuel, despite various assertions that the exercise had other motives, for instance:

Vidal Centeno's seemingly designed lamp, which will hang from the ceiling in the gallery, actually takes the form of a concept spy satellite and is a reference to military intelligence culture.

When Belle and her brother discover a spy satellite on the roof of their shed, Belle has to find a way to use her skills in the real world and fast.

S.H.I.E.L.D is working on a secret project involving three massive helicarriers involving spy satellite technology and weaponry to combat incoming threats.

This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway, creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker on one after another, readying for pursuit.

So, a good spy satellite might have 1 - meter resolution like this.

A US spy satellite was blown to smithereens last week when its Titan 4 rocket exploded 101 seconds after launch from Vandenberg Air Force base in California.

«The NRO is vehemently opposed to the idea of using a new, unproven booster,» according to one defence analyst who says that the spy satellite agency is still smarting from its experience with the space shuttle.

In 2008, it successfully destroyed a failed US spy satellite that was slowly falling back to Earth and posed a small risk of falling on inhabited Pacific islands.

Bindschadler's research led him to an archive of newly declassified spy satellite photos from the cold war.

Using now - declassified data from a 1970s - to 1980s - era U.S. spy satellite called Hexagon KH - 9, the team estimated changes in the elevations of five moraine dams of lakes that have burst between 1984 and 1994.

Neither of NASA's next - generation observatories — the 6.5 - meter James Webb Space Telescope and a 2.4 - meter repurposed infrared spy satellite called WFIRST — will fill these wavelength gaps.

The Naval Research Laboratory thinks it can use the ionosphere to improve spy satellite operations.

«As it turns out, GE designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every important weapons system employed by the USA during the Gulf War, including the much - praised Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B - 52 bomber, the AWACS plane, the Apache and Cobra helicopters and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system.

SpaceX said suggestions that the spy satellite Zuma has been lost are categorically false.

The mission is to send a U.S. spy satellite into orbit.

Northrop Grumman built and operated the components that failed during the controversial January launch of the U.S. spy satellite known as Zuma, according to a Wall Street Journal report Sunday.

Northrop Grumman built the components that failed during a launch of the U.S. spy satellite known as Zuma, WSJ reports.

The area was photographed with American reconnaissance assets to better assess what the Soviet Union's spy satellites might be able to discern.

Trump, whose administration is moving to crack down on leaks of U.S. government information, also retweeted a Fox News report based on anonymous sources that said U.S. spy satellites had detected North Korea moving anti-ship cruise missiles to a patrol boat.

Over the years, great strides were taken to achieve this goal, many coming from research into space exploration, as well as spy satellites.

Much of the engaging read traces the evolution of military technology, from radar to GPS and spy satellites, weaving in tales of the mapmakers, inventors and scientists behind the discoveries.

Setting aside spy satellites and military assets, even for purely civilian satellites technology sharing, is not the norm.

U.S. spy satellites, however, could provide important data on the exact extent of damage.

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Just two weeks after Spahr's asteroid whizzed by, researchers at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, given the task by the military of spotting enemy spy satellites, unveiled a novel approach for monitoring large areas of the sky using sophisticated software.

Are spy satellites being «blinded» by ground - based lasers?

The Pentagon is developing these «automatic target recognition systems» to pinpoint tanks and other military targets automatically from images taken by spy satellites or aircraft.

America's first generation of spy satellites, launched between 1959 and 1972 to check on Soviet missile installations, were equipped with 70 mm cameras.

The US Air Force, ever the big brother, launched a set of spy satellites to make sure nobody was breaking the treaty.

He made it clear that the CIA has not been so overtaken by the spirit of openness that it will release photographs taken by today's spy satellites.

The CIA has decided to give environmental researchers access to its archives of super-secret photographs of the Earth taken by spy satellites.

At least one military customer is virtually certain to spurn the RLV: the US National Reconnaissance Office, which is in charge of American spy satellites.

The $ 3 - million cruise is part of a post-Cold War trend of using the Pentagon's assets such as spy satellites and submarines for environmental research.

Although some spy satellites will pick out objects just half a metre across, the best resolution Gupta could expect was 10 metres.

The Hubble telescope, with an optical system considered comparable to those of the finest US spy satellites, would pick out objects only 10 to 20 centimetres across if it was aimed at Earth.

Both SAIC and Litton have built components for secret spy satellites flown by the US.

US spy satellites had identified only one small nuclear reactor in China capable of making the material for a bomb, and the report concluded that it could not produce enough until 1965.

The spy satellites gave the West a vital view of events in the Soviet Union and China.

Unlike today's spy satellites, which radio their images to Earth, the Corona satellites took pictures and sent the film home in small re-entry capsules.

Thirty - five years after the US began sending spy satellites into space, Washington has admitted that the capsules contained cameras rather than rodents.

Analyzing declassified images from spy satellites, researchers discovered that the downhill flow of ice on Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf was already accelerating as early as the 1960s and»70s.