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Monday, December 3rd, 2007

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New Spy Satellite System Planned, To Cost Billions: Report The Department of Defense (DOD) is expected to procure spy satellites that likely will be based on commercial-sat architecture, in a program costing $2 billion to $4 billion, the Associated Press reported. Called BASIC, the new system likely would be based on an existing commercial satellite imagery system, or a derivative, according to the report. Commercial systems have gathered some arresting satellite photography of vital military value, such as a Google…

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