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| Articles about Spacecraft |
| | | Israel enhances military intelligence capabilities versus Iran in its first double spacecraft liftoff with India | | 2007-09-18 20:11:00 | | DEBKA - US and Indian military sources say that, if successful, the twin launch by the same Polaris/TecSat vehicle Sept. 17-20 will add Israel to the few nations with imaging radar reconnaissance satellites able to distinguish camouflaged vehicles from rocky terrain – by night and through foliage.The Israeli military satellite will lift off along with India’s first military recon spacecraft, Cartosat 2A. They will be fired in an approximately 600-km polar orbit atop the same Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from an island in the Bay of Bengal. The data-gathering features of Polaris 1 are especially pertinent for a potential attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.Israeli satellite’s ability to “see through” cloud and foliage and distinguish between camouflaged vehicles and rocks, provide an answer for Iran’s ingenious camouflaging methods employed by Hizballah in the 2006 Lebanese war.... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| See the Earth, circa 1990 as the Galileo spacecraft saw it | | 2007-05-15 14:52:31 | | In 1990, Galileo coasted past the Earth in the first of two passes to speed the spacecraft on it’s way to Jupiter
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It took this home movie on the way by. (Movie in Quicktime format).
Technorati Tags: space, earth, galileo, say cheese... | | By: ArsGeek | | |
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