A new generation of electro-optical imaging satellites to be built by Lockheed Martin pending congressional approval will have an aperture size of 2.4 meters, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.

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Warren Ferster is the Editor-in-Chief of SpaceNews and is responsible for all the news and editorial coverage in the weekly newspaper, the spacenews.com Web site and variety of specialty publications such as show dailies. He manages a staff of seven reporters...