The NRO, which usually keeps its work secret, officially acknowledged the program in April, a month before the first batch of satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

NRO awards contracts to Xplore and five other hyperspectral imaging companies by Alan Boyle on March 22, 2023 at 8:22 pm March 22, 2023 at 8:22 pm Share 44 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and NASA have agreed to cooperate on the development of a lunar spacecraft intended as the first shot in a series of robotic probes paving the way for ...

The Atlas 5, powered by a Russian-built RD-180 first stage engine and five GEM-63 strap-on solid-fuel boosters, roared to life and climbed away from pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

NRO’s Pete Muend: ‘One of the things that we are moving out on is the potential to purchase commercial radar imagery’ by Sandra Erwin April 19, 2021 January 23, 2023.

Airbus U.S., Albedo Space, Hydrosat, Muon Space and Turion Space won study contracts that allow the NRO to assess their products by Sandra Erwin December 5, 2023 December 5, 2023.

NRO strikes multibillion-dollar deals with BlackSky, Maxar and Planet for spy satellite imagery by Alan Boyle on May 25, 2022 at 3:03 pm May 25, 2022 at 3:38 pm Share 31 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

SpaceX’s Role in the NRO’s Proliferated Architecture. The NROL-69 mission is part of the NRO’s strategy to develop a “proliferated architecture” for its satellite network.

Additionally, NRO is working with Space Command to develop a more resilient, proliferated satellite architecture. “We all know that Russia and China are becoming very aggressive with space weapons.

Executive Mosaic spoke with Dr. Aaron Weiner, director of the advanced systems and technology directorate at the National Reconnaissance Office, to better understand how the NRO is looking at the ...

The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Airbus’ U.S. arm, Capella Space, ICEYE, Umbra and PredaSAR to develop commercial radar systems. NRO said Thursday it issued a broad ...