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07 Dec 2009
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Cheaper, Smaller Network of Spy Satellites Gives Troops on the Ground Their Own Eye in the Sky
Added by USGIF Category: Daily Intelligence Brief, General
We all know that launching and managing spy satellites is a major and challenging endeavor. Do you recall NRO Director Bruce Carlson discussing this at GEOINT 2009? Well, there seems to be a new breed of satellite technology that aims to provide the warfighter with instant real-time images of what awaits them at the other side of the ridge. Kestrel Eye, a system of multiple lightweight, low-cost imaging satellites that can be repositioned from the field, aims to be a soldier’s little eye in the sky that beams down some real time images of the surrounding landscape.
