Russian rocket launches 6 intelligence satellites into orbit in 2012!!!

2012 expanding potential theater of conflict: Russian rocket launches 6 intelligence satellites into orbit
December 17, 2011 – MOSCOW – A Russian Soyuz rocket fired six satellites into space Friday, launching missions to serve defense agencies in Europe and Chile with high-resolution imagery and electronic intelligence. The passengers included France’s Pleiades 1 imaging platform, four French ELISA electronic intelligence satellites and the SSOT Earth observation satellite for Chile. All the payloads orbited by the Soyuz on Friday night were manufactured by EADS Astrium. Spain and Italy will receive priority data for military needs under separate agreements with the French defense ministry. Civil users will receive about 95 percent of the capacity from the Pleiades system through Astrium Services, the company responsible for commercial imagery dissemination, but time-sensitive military requests will be expedited. [link to theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com]