"The press could have asked me about satellites to Mars and I would have given them an answer."

"The notion has been around that the Pentagon might worry about high-powered civil satellites," he said in a brief interview.

But what my father knew about satellites added credibility to the odd, ragged photo that had turned up carefully sandwiched between two pieces of cardboard.

We commonly hear about weather satellites, communication satellites and scientific satellites.

Listen, they know all about photo-reconnaissance satellites.

I am not talking about laser-equipped hunter-killer satellites at thirty thousand meters overhead or some such.

Streak detection software (known as "Magic") was used to censor pixels containing information about satellites in the image.

The officials said the student had obtained access to information about satellites, radiation and engineering, but he is not accused of stealing vital national secrets.

Several people are now in jail just because they leaked information about such satellites or data gathered by them.

We have already heard about launchers and satellites.