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In early 1996, Notra Trulock told CIA officials about his discoveries on the PRC's theft of America's nuclear warhead designs. [2] February. A model of a typical satellite. On February 14, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) space launch vehicle crashed, destroying the Loral Space & Communications satellite (Intelsat 708) it was carrying. PRC ...
On 11 January 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite missile test. A Chinese weather satellite—the FY-1C (COSPAR 1999-025A) polar orbit satellite of the Fengyun series, at an altitude of 865 kilometres (537 mi), with a mass of 750 kilograms (1,650 lb) [1] —was destroyed by a kinetic kill vehicle traveling with a speed of 8 km/s (18,000 mph) in the opposite direction [2] (see Head-on ...
A 1999 United States House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military and Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China report, known as the Cox Report, warned that China has stolen classified information on every thermonuclear warhead in the country's intercontinental ballistic missile arsenal. [32]
The Chinese satellites - Shiyan-12-01 and Shiyan-12-02 - took off in op. Chinese satellites have shown the ability to evade and monitor a US surveillance satellite, prompting experts to call for ...
The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it is investigating if the use of Russian and Chinese foreign satellite systems by U.S. mobile phones and other devices poses security threats.
Operation Burnt Frost was a military operation to intercept and destroy non-functioning U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite USA-193. [1] The mission was described by the Missile Defense Agency as a "mission of safeguarding human life against the uncontrolled re-entry of a 5,000-pound satellite containing over 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine propellant". [2]
The Pentagon said it had observed another Chinese spy balloon — this one in Latin America — just hours after revealing there was a similar balloon in the U.S.
U.S. officials denied that the action was intended to prevent sensitive technology falling into foreign hands [1] and also denied that it was a response to the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test. [29] This was not the first time the United States shot down one of its own satellites; the Air Force had shot down a satellite in 1985. [30]