1.   During the Kosovo conflict, the thick cloud meant that some unmanned aerial vehicles took more useful pictures than spy satellites.

2.   The Americans have denied using spy satellites to spy on China.

3.   These spy satellites were to be in place within a few years to monitor all Soviet military activities.

4.   American spy satellites, released from cold war duty, are joining in the monitoring of ice.

5.   American spy satellites have the capability of detecting such missile launches and tracking their trajectory.

6.   Among his projects were reconnaissance satellites and satellite photographic systems for the Corona program, the first successful spy satellite.

7.   Another spy satellite misdirected its film pod into a field in central Asia, where peasants wrapped the precious Kodak film around poles to provide solitude for a privy.

8.   At least in earlier days Washington had spy satellites hovering over Soviet silos.

9.   At the time, he worked for TRW, a contractor for the National Reconnaissance Office, which develops and manages spy satellites.

10.   Back when the Cold War still raged, the U.S. Air Force worried about spy satellites, cruise missiles -- and the checkerspot butterfly.