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A former US government scientist arrested on Monday for espionage has a close connection to India.
Federal Bureau Investigation agents posed as Israeli intelligence officers in an undercover operation and found Nozette was willing to give them classified information.
Stewart Nozette was a top American co-investigator for India's maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1. Nozette worked on a NASA guest instrument flown onboard Chandrayaan to search for water hidden deep within the craters of the moon.
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An American scientist who worked for the US defence department and the space agency Nasa has been charged with attempted espionage, officials say.
Stewart David Nozette tried to give classified information to a person who he believed was an Israeli intelligence officer, the justice department said.

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A Maryland scientist who had worked for U.S. defence, space and energy agencies was arrested on charges of attempting to pass classified information to Israel, according to the Justice Department.
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Experts Warn Ground-Based Lasers Could Interfere with Orbiting Satellites, Call for Stricter Guidelines
In October 2006, the military affairs journal Jane's Intelligence Weekly reported that U.S. Army officials detected a "sudden decline" in the effectiveness of some its spy satellites throughout the fall as they passed over China.
Before receiving an explanation from the Chinese military, initial fears were that the country had intentionally aimed ground-based lasers at the U.S. satellites to temporally disrupt their ability to collect information, or worse, materially damage them.

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Law Forcing Space Companies to Sell

The acquisition reform legislation passed by US Congress is forcing major defence companies to sell subsidiaries so they dont fall afoul of new restrictions forbidding manufacturers from owning companies that advise the government about acquisitions.
The most glaring example appears to be the pending sale by Northrop Grumman of TASC, a company with some 5,000 employees who provide the US military and, especially, the intelligence community with technical advice on acquisitions and operations.
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A Chinese-born engineer in the United States has been found guilty of passing space shuttle technology secrets to China, for more than 30 years.
Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 73, is the first person to be found guilty under a federal law, introduced in 1996, to counter economic espionage.

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Following a campaign promise, the Barack Obama administration plans to seek a total ban on space weapons. In so doing, Barack Obama is going down the largely discredited path of national defence by arms control treaty.

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China taken off US missile hit list
When China Great Wall Industry Corporation's (CGWIC) senior executives and staff look back at what has transpired in 2008, they can raise their glasses high, and proclaim a number of achievements. CGWIC is China's only exporter of commercial satellite technology and the enterprise which serves as a one-stop shop for overseas buyers of all of China's commercial satellite launches. It is also the chief promoter and deal maker for China's fast-growing aerospace industry.

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The Pentagon wants to rocket troops through space to hot spots anywhere on the globe within two hours, and planners spent two days last month discussing how to do it, military documents show.

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