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Wired’s “Danger Room” blog recently came out with a post that featured an image from DigitalGlobe of a purported to be a Chinese anti-satellite laser weapon site. According to the post, space security experts are uncertain that it is an actual anti-satellite laser weapon site because it is difficult to tell the difference between a laser research lab, stargazing facility, range finder, or a full-on weapon site. There is reason to not be skeptical — China has made no secret of its interest in developing space weapons. The country fired lasers at U.S. satellites, possibly blinding the spacecraft for a bit in 2006. And in 2007, Beijing used to a missile to destroy an old weather satellite in orbit.

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Here we are. It’s Monday morning and time to dust off the cob webs and kick it into high gear – professionally speaking of course. Today, we have a wide range of GEOINT-related news from the business side (latest on sale of TASC) to the disturbing (space warfare with China) to the entertaining (NKorea’s Kim travels like a rock star). Our intention, as always with this post, is to provide you with a wide range of news stories to help you kick off your work week with professional gusto. So, as we say, go fire up that second cup of coffee and read on and Happy Monday!

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