U.S. Air Forces Launches Secret US Spy Satellite

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket launches the classified NROL-38 spy satellite into orbit from Space Launch Complex-41 at the Cape Ca...

A Clash Over Spy Satellites Between The U.S. Military And The U.S. Intelligence Community

A Military and Intelligence Clash Over Spy Satellites -- New York Times WASHINGTON — The nation’s spies and its military commanders are at o...

Hexagon KH-9 Secret Program Is Now Revealed

Decades Later, A Cold War Secret Is Revealed -- Stars And Stripes/AP DANBURY, Conn. (AP) -- For more than a decade they toiled in the strang...

Darpa Wants To Build The Ultimate Spy Satellite

An artist concept of a lightweight space telescope that deploys a lens made from flexible membrane. CREDIT: DARPA 'Dream' Space Tele...

Another Secret U.S. Military Satellite Launched Into Space

( Click on Image to Enlarge ) A Minotaur I rocket was launched from Space Launch Complex-8 here at 4:26 a.m. (PST) Feb. 6. The rocket carrie...

U.S. Successful In Launch Of A Secret Payload Into Space

Spy Satellite Launch Shakes Up California -- ABC News Delta IV Heavy Rocket Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base The United States launch...

Latest National Reconnaissance Satellite Launched Into Space

Air Force Launches Massive, Secret Spy Satellite -- CBS News Delta 4 Rocket Blasts Off With U.S. Spy Agency's "Largest Satellite in...

No Arms Treaty Will Mean More Spy Satellites

Intel: No Arms Treaty Means U.S. May Divert Satellites To Cover Russia -- Washington Times Senate under pressure to ratify New START. In the...

Secret U.S. Spy Satellite Set For Launch Tonight

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy sits poised on its launch pad with a National Reconnaissance Office payload at Space Launch Complex-...

The Next Generation Of Hi-Res Satellite Imaging Technology Is On The Way

Bird's-Eye View Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, South Africa, courtesy of GeoEye-1. GeoEye GeoEye, DigitalGlobe Get $7 Billion From Int...

Prototype Hyperspectral Satellite Fast-Tracked To Begin Official Spy Work For Military

TacSat-3 The TacSat-3 satellite, which will start official military operations June 12, includes a sensor that detects spectral signatures ...

Cheaper, Smaller Network Of Spy Satellites Gives Troops On The Ground Their Own Eye In The Sky

Don't You Wish You Knew What's Beyond that Ridge? With Kestrel Eye satellites, grunts on the ground will be able to check out surrou...

Satellite Images Of The Second Iranian Nuclear Enrichment Site

The overall view of the Iranian site. The mountain under which the site is built is to the lower right of the image. (Credit: GeoEye satelli...

The Commercialization Of Military Satellite Images

GeoEye-1 World's Highest-resolution Commercial Satellite -- Science Daily ScienceDaily (May 27, 2009) — Since the early 1960s, super pow...

Intelligence Chiefs Itching To Buy Advanced Snoop Satellites

From Tech News World: National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have proposed the creation of new, soph...

Satellite Proposals Gain Traction After North Korea's Launch

From The Wall Street Journal: U.S. intelligence agencies are capitalizing on North Korea's weekend rocket launch to advance proposals to...

Blair, Gates OK Multi-Billion Secret Sats

From DoD Buzzz: President Barack Obama is expected to approve a new constellation of highly classified multi-billion dollar spy satellites i...

Selling Our DoD Satellite Images

The White House DoD, Intel Mull Higher Rez Sat Shots -- DoD Buzz The debate is in the very early stages but the intelligence community and t...

The Flying Spaghetti Monster: The American Military Space Program In Perpetual Crisis

SBIRS is just one of many major military space procurments that have run into cost, schedule, and other problems in recent years. (credit: L...

Pentagon OKs Spy Satellite Purchase

From MSNBC: WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has approved plans to buy and launch two commercial-class imagery satellites to complement its classif...