Amateur rocketry is getting a closer look from federal regulators as technological advances boost the most sophisticated amateur rockets higher into the air - and even toward space.
Now anyone can see some of the high-resolution satellite images that the U.S. military studied as it plotted strategy in Afghanistan. An exclusive contract between Space Imaging of Thornton and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency - or NIMA, which purchases geographic images for the U.S. Department of Defense - expired late last week.