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U.S.A., 2000
The Public Eye project of the Federation of American Scientists ordered this
IKONOS satellite image of the secret U.S. airbase called Area 51—located at Groom
Lake, Nevada—to test the limits of the government's shutter-control policy.
Groom Lake is one of America's most sensitive and closely guarded military
flight test centers. After a two-month delay that included the release of a
two-meter Russian image, Space Imaging, which is a subsidiary of Lockheed
Martin, finally released the image. In the lower center of the image, note the
blast deflector, which might have been installed not only to protect buildings
out of view in this image but also to allow engines of planes to be tested
inside the hangar, out of view of prying satellite eyes.
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