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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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