Last February a U.S. cruiser successfully shot down a damaged U.S. military spy satellite hurtling toward Earth.
Trying to keep up, they have launched one spy satellite and want Germany to help pay for others.
Israel's last spy satellite, TecSar, was launched from India in 2008.
Yesterday, Iran successfully launched a second spy satellite into space.
Late in his tenure, there was controversy over the decision to ban, for security reasons, a programme about the Zircon spy satellite, amid more reported pressure from the governors.
It was the presence of a large quantity of toxic propellants on the returning spy satellite USA-193 that the American government used to justify its decision to shoot down the spacecraft with a missile in 2008.
The Center for Security Policy commends the United States Navy for Wednesday's successful shoot-down of a failing spy satellite that could have posed a threat to human health and American national security had it fallen to earth.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Satellite intercept shows missile defense need
But this week American spy-satellite pictures were said to show thousands of North Koreans beavering away on what may be a secret undergound nuclear complex.
Working around the clock for six weeks, sifting through thousands of agent reports, spy-satellite photos and signal intercepts, the task force finally pinpointed the 31-year-old Saudi-born Palestinian in a villa near Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Israel has launched a surveillance satellite that will be used to spy on Iran's nuclear programme, reports say.
With the success of TES, the ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore will embark on manufacturing operational remote sensing satellites that can double as spy satellites.
应用推荐