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Chinese military satellite damaged by Soviet rocket is the ‘first major orbital collision in a decade’
It was speculated that part of the craft could have exploded, but it is now known it came from the Zenit-2 rocket The Zenit-2 rocket launched a Tselina-2 electronic spy satellite in September 1996 ...
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Space Race Time Line
Equally, the Soviets wanted to spy on the United States but strived ... the United States would begin work on a scientific satellite. The Soviet Union immediately announced that it too would ...
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China denies new report linking CCP to four sites in Cuba allegedly used to spy on the US
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union operated a SIGINT facility at the Lourdes Signals Intelligence Complex near Havana. That site monitored U.S. satellites and intercepted sensitive military and ...
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CIA unveils Cold War spy-pigeon missions
The files reveal how pigeons were trained for clandestine missions photographing sensitive sites inside the Soviet Union ... higher than those produced by spy satellites operating at the time.