The opening skies: Third-party imaging satellites and U.S. security
Earth observation satellites, long a mainstay of U.S. intelligence-gathering, are now presenting new challenges for U.S. national security. The United States and the Soviet Union have long since reconciled themselves to being spied on by each other from space. Now, however, the advent of imaging sat...
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ftsingaporemuniv:oai:ink.library.smu.edu.sg:soss_research-3351 2023-05-15T17:04:58+02:00 The opening skies: Third-party imaging satellites and U.S. security FLORINI, Ann 1988-09-01T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2094 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3351&context=soss_research eng eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2094 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3351&context=soss_research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND Research Collection School of Social Sciences Political Science text 1988 ftsingaporemuniv 2021-09-14T17:36:13Z Earth observation satellites, long a mainstay of U.S. intelligence-gathering, are now presenting new challenges for U.S. national security. The United States and the Soviet Union have long since reconciled themselves to being spied on by each other from space. Now, however, the advent of imaging satellite systems owned and operated by a variety of third parties, including governments other than the superpowers (France, Canada, the European Space Agency, India, and China) and private companies, is raising new concerns for U.S. peacetime foreign relations and military activities, and for crisis management and war- time operations. These new satellites, primarily civilian remote-sensing instruments, are intended to gather information on subjects ranging from agriculture to urban planning, but they can also observe scenes of military interest, and their data are publicly available. They have already been used to reveal new information about Soviet military facilities on the Kola peninsula and to publicize deployments in the Iran-Iraq war. Text kola peninsula Institutional Knowledge (InK) at Singapore Management University Kola Peninsula Canada |
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Earth observation satellites, long a mainstay of U.S. intelligence-gathering, are now presenting new challenges for U.S. national security. The United States and the Soviet Union have long since reconciled themselves to being spied on by each other from space. Now, however, the advent of imaging satellite systems owned and operated by a variety of third parties, including governments other than the superpowers (France, Canada, the European Space Agency, India, and China) and private companies, is raising new concerns for U.S. peacetime foreign relations and military activities, and for crisis management and war- time operations. These new satellites, primarily civilian remote-sensing instruments, are intended to gather information on subjects ranging from agriculture to urban planning, but they can also observe scenes of military interest, and their data are publicly available. They have already been used to reveal new information about Soviet military facilities on the Kola peninsula and to publicize deployments in the Iran-Iraq war. |
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