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Cold War’s best kept secret: Spy satellite that stayed hidden for 30 years
Launched in utter secrecy, Parcae’s orbital triads tracked Soviet warships in real-time, offering a vital edge at the height of the Cold War.
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Space Race Time Line
The U.S. satellite aptly named Explorer 1 not only ... the Soviets never attacked any of them. More benign Soviet stations such as the Salyut 4 were utilized in research and tests similar to ...
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A Spy Satellite You’ve Never Heard of Helped Win the Cold War
The Soviet Navy was becoming a global ... “sensor-to-shooter” intelligence—from a satellite to a ship commander or weapons control station—within minutes. According to Navy Captain James ...
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World's largest iceberg A23a tracked by satellite images
It is 400 metres thick and it once housed a Soviet research station. Satellite images from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1 satellite, processed by the British Antarctic Survey ...
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Satellite Maintains Steady Course As U.S. Plans Winter Launching; Ike Spurns Soviet Policy Parley
4. This country was never in a race with Russia to get the first satellite into orbit. Ike Declaration on Russian Bid WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--President Eisenhower ruled out today any joint Soviet ...