satellite
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The company recently petitioned the FCC for permission to launch a prototype satellite made with a mirror 60 feet wide that could launch as soon as this summer.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
Beginning with signals intelligence, and satellite and electronic surveillance of activity in the strait, such a mission would likely include maritime patrol aircraft and drones.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
“News flow about increasingly frequent satellite launches and increasingly useful LEO satellite-based network services are rightly drawing investors’ attention,” Stein wrote in a note to clients this week, referring to low-Earth-orbit satellites.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
However, some people have managed to connect using satellite internet systems such as Starlink and other methods, though it comes at a high cost.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Photographs transmitted by the spy satellite showed Soviet construction crews digging a twenty-three-mile-long trench near Moscow.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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