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SAUDI ARABIA UNITED STATES Issue dated 10/06/2015

Amer Kayani, Orbital's trump card

Washington is positioning its pawns to snag the contract, also being pursued by the French, to supply a constellation of optical observation satellites to Riyadh. [...] (323 words)

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New GEOINT agency on launchpad

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