UNITED ARAB EMIRATES EUROPEUNITED STATES Issue 696 dated 25/09/2013

Satellites: for a few centimetres less

Commercial satellite operators are fighting to convince governments to allow them to sell lower resolution imagery.

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New Saudi Space Agency takes on more staff

Thales gets agent to arbitration table

Intelligence services try to save money on cyber

US spies way to outshine Google Earth

SpyMeSat brings Pleiades down to earth

US on offensive in military imagery business

Discreet race for drones

Paris chases double whammy in Gulf

Satellite imagery sales policed

Le Drian's French satellite hard-sell

Spy satellite export rush

Twin spy-satellites mystery

Gulf states get into spy satellites

Raytheon vs EADS : satellite wars

NGA seeks satellite imagery anti-virus

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