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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off post from got geoint? We hope everyone had safe and happy New Year’s Eve. So, here we are. It’s 2012. Any new resolutions? Perhaps your resolution is to be the best GEOINT professional that you can be? That’s certainly a laudable one. Hopefully, we can help you reach this resolution by providing you with all the news to help you achieve your professional goals and dreams. So, welcome to our first MMNKO post for 2012. As we always say, fire up that second cup of coffee and read on!

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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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