Word: richelson
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...budget for 1994, $1 billion worth of spying equipment disappeared in a flash above Vandenberg Air Force Base -- the costliest space accident since the 1986 Challenger disaster. A new Titan IV rocket carrying a supersecret intelligence-satellite system inexplicably blew up two minutes after launch. Space-spying expert Jeffrey Richelson, author of America's Secret Eyes in Space, called it a "huge embarrassment for the intelligence community...
...pictures of the ground even through clouds and at night. One of the two Lacrosses currently in orbit has been up for more than four years and needs to be replaced. "Any lengthy delay in getting the Titan IV operational could be critical to the U.S. surveillance capability," said Richelson...
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