India said that it needs a military space program to defend its satellites from threats like China’s newly revealed ability to shoot down targets in orbit.
The comments by India’s army chief raise the possibility of a regional race that could accelerate the militarization of space and heighten tensions between the Asian giants, who have been [...]

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The U.S. military painted China on Tuesday as posing a growing threat to the United States and others in space and cyberspace.
China is “aggressively” honing its ability to shoot down satellites along with other space and counter-space capabilities, said Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Horne of the U.S. Strategic Command.
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According to Dr Pillai, the Brahmos hypersonic version will not only have higher speed, but will also consume less fuel and require less operational time to deploy. These qualities are expected to provide the missile longer range, and also ensure less reaction time from the enemy.
High speeds also make the missile difficult to detect, and [...]

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Chinese officials at the Toulouse Space Show have announced plans to put an Asia-wide satellite positioning system in place by 2010 to work alongside the US GPS and European Galileo programmes.
The Beidou/Compass system already has four satellites in position. It will be free to use, but will include an encrypted channel for “authorised” users.
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Israel’s Ministry of Defense has secured tacit U.S. government consent for a prospective remote sensing deal with China based on the Eros B, a commercial, high-resolution satellite nearly identical to the Israeli military’s Ofeq-5.
Sources here and in Washington confirmed the U.S. greenlight for Beijing’s participation in a unique operational program run by Imagesat International (ISI), [...]

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Mysterious transmissions assaulting Israeli satellite TV broadcasts
International Herald Tribune, France - 11 hours ago
6, the day Israeli warplanes slipped past Syria’s Russian-made air defense systems, attacked a military target deep inside the country and escaped …
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A joint mission developed by China and Brazil was shot into an orbit circling Earth’s poles to snap detailed images of the globe during an early Wednesday launch from China’s northeastern space base.
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Images from the new high-resolution camera will also be useful in urban planning and military intelligence applications for China and Brazil.
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In a unique flight scheduled for liftoff from India Sept. 17-20, Israel’s first “Polaris/TecSat” military imaging radar satellite is to be launched along with India’s first military recon spacecraft. They will be fired into an approximately 600-km. (372-mi.) polar orbit atop the same powerful Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
The mission, from India’s launch site on [...]

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Military satellites are getting priced out of the market by cheaper manned aircraft and UAV alternatives. Even small, quickly launched micro-satellites, cost ten times more, per hour over the battlefield, than do alternatives. These now include things like weather balloons carrying satellite grade communications or sensors.
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The Pentagon believes China could be as little as three years away from the capability to disrupt U.S. military satellites during a conflict, one official said Tuesday.
A senior military commander said recent tests of anti-satellite weapons indicate China is racing to develop the ability to blind or destroy American satellites in orbit.
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Israeli space capabilities will take a giant leap in September when the Defense Ministry launches its most advanced spy satellite aboard an Indian rocket. The new satellite is capable of transmitting tiny images in all weather conditions.
Following last month’s successful launch of the Ofek 7 spy satellite, Israel is making final arrangements to launch the [...]

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MOSCOW: A Russian-built space rocket on Friday sent a new military satellite into orbit, military officials said.
A Zenit-2M booster rocket put the Kosmos-2428 satellite into its designated orbit 13 minutes after its launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian Space Forces said in a statement.
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When China destroyed its own satellite, outrage — and debris — rapidly encircled the globe. Was the Sat Kill a policy weapon or the start of an arms race in space?
At 5:28 PM EST on Jan. 11, 2007, a satellite arced over southern China. It was small — just 6 ft. long — a tiny [...]

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Satellite tracking software freely available on the Internet and some textbook physics could be used by any organization that can get hold of an intermediate range rocket to mount an unsophisticated attack on military or civilian satellites. Such an attack would require modest engineering capability and only a limited budget. That is according to researchers [...]

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In the face of Iran’s race to obtain nuclear weapons and predictions that war with Syria is on the horizon, Israel strengthened its foothold in space pre-dawn Monday and successfully launched a spy satellite, which defense officials said granted the IDF unprecedented operational capabilities.
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When the Chinese military fired a missile at an old weather satellite in space last January, it struck a nerve in the U.S. Congress.
Five months after the Chinese proved they could destroy a satellite in orbit, U.S. lawmakers are responding with a surge in spending on Pentagon space programs aimed at protecting U.S. satellites.
The House [...]

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Not only did China design, build and launch the satellite for Nigeria, but it also provided a huge loan to help pay the bill. China has also signed a satellite contract with another big oil supplier, Venezuela. It is developing an earth observation satellite system with Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru and Thailand. And [...]

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Beijing- China was “losing no time” in preparing its first lunar orbiter, Chang’e I, which will most likely be launched in the second half of 2007, a space official said here on Sunday.
“The moon probe project is the third milestone in China’s space technology after satellite and manned spacecraft projects, and a first step for [...]

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SUMMERLAND KEY, Fla. — Europe is not the only focus of efforts to build a rival to GPS, the U.S. constellation of navigation satellites. U.S. control of the world’s only fully functional satellite navigation system is fueling efforts by China, Japan and India to develop alternatives to GPS for regional coverage, and in China’s case [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Chinese anti-satellite test in January increased the risk that a spacecraft could collide with debris by up to 40 percent in some orbits, the U.S. Air Force Space Command said on Wednesday.
Before China’s test, the Space Command said, there had been a one in 1,000 chance of a satellite in [...]

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What administration officials did not say is that as the Chinese were preparing to launch their antisatellite weapon, American intelligence agencies had issued reports about the preparations being made at the Songlin test facility. In high-level discussions, senior Bush administration officials debated how to respond and even began to draft a protest, but ultimately decided [...]

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