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Understanding Satellites
  • What Satellites Do
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  •   What Satellites Do

    MILITARY

    Spy satellites: Surveillance cameras, interception of radio and telephone communications.
    Battlefield: Communication, control of forces, navigation, surveillance, weather.
    Weapons in space: Under study in spite of treaties banning most of them; antisatellite and antimissile systems; "Star Wars."

    Source: Knight-Ridder/Tribune

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