Hubble begins new operation
Posted on: Fri Sep 2nd, 2005 | spaceflightnow.com

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope entered a new era of science operations this week, when engineers shut down one of the three operational gyroscopes aboard the observatory. The two-gyro mode is expected to preserve the operating life of the third gyro and extend Hubble's science observations through mi...

Reconnaissance Office Role to Be Reviewed
Posted on: Fri Sep 2nd, 2005 | washingtonpost.com

The new director of the National Reconnaissance Office said yesterday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had ordered a review of the role of the organization, which designs, builds and operates U.S. intelligence satellites, in the aftermath of other changes taking place throughout the intelli...

N Korea says more than 170 US spy flights flown in August
Posted on: Fri Sep 2nd, 2005 | indiadaily.com

North Korea alleged today that US spy planes flew more than 170 flights against the communist nation last month. The peak of the claimed espionage came Aug. 22-23, when a total 23 flights were made at the start of joint US-South Korean military exercises, the North's official Korean Central News Age...

U-2 reconnaissance jets fly missions to survey Katrina situation
Posted on: Fri Sep 2nd, 2005 | appeal-democrat.com

U-2 pilots from Beale Air Force Base are flying reconnaissance missions to aid the Hurricane Katrina relief effort in the southeastern United States.