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OCR: MILITARY SATELLITES SATELLITES PROVIDE an ideal vantage point for Solar spying. Some have powerful cameras to take panel detailed photographs of military sites and troop movements. While early-warning satellites watch for enemy missiles, other satellites listen in on enemy communications. Spy satellites can be attacked by missiles launched from the ground or by "killer" satellites that destroy enemy satellites with lasers or by exploding nearby. Dish Bomb antenna crater EARLY WARNING The US Defense Support EYES IN THE SKY Program satellites detect Satellites helped direct incoming enemy missiles Infrared bombing raids during SEE sensor NEXT ALSO from geostationary orbit. the Persian Gulf War.