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Rogue Spy Satellite's Rotten, $10 Billion Legacy

Noah Shachtman writes on Danger Room:

That satellite that's due to be shot down this week was bad news, even before it got off the ground. The failed orbiter, USA-193, is widely believed to be part of a classified surveillance in space program known as Future Imagery Architecture, or FIA.

And FIA is known as one of the biggest defense-technology boondoggles in recent history -- "perhaps the most spectacular and expensive failure in the 50-year history of American spy satellite projects," The New York Times once wrote.

posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2008 07:49:00 PM