31.   For U.S. commanders and military analysts, this second Chechen war has revealed more about Russian strengths and weaknesses than any spy satellite ever could.

32.   Former employees describe the office as a startlingly small management organization issuing billions of dollars of classified contracts to the companies that build spy satellites and their components.

33.   In a separate but related embarrassment for Star Wars freaks, the Army missed a chance last weekend to test a ground laser that would attack spy satellites.

34.   In recent weeks, spy satellites have recorded scientific and technical activity at the Pokaran test site in the Rajasthan desert in India.

35.   In recent weeks, spy satellites have recorded scientific and technical activity at the Pokaran test site in the Rajasthan desert.

36.   In the Northwest, spy satellites have gauged the temperature of salmon streams.

37.   Instead, the University of Texas engineering professor is pondering such issues as the ability of spy satellites and other options to impede the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

38.   It designs, builds, and operates spy satellites that photograph and overhear what other countries are up to.

39.   Its targets are hard men hiding in shadows and speaking in codes, against whom spy satellites, surveillance systems and smart bombs count for little.

40.   Its trump card was to be the Zenit, a military rocket that Moscow had used for launching a wide variety of spy satellites.