"The idea of the mission is to put a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, and then to be looking at that orbital regime and get a sense of what's happening day to day," said NRO Director Chris Scolese.

The NRO is taking advantage of SpaceX's Starlink satellite assembly line to build a network of at least 100 satellites, and perhaps many more, to monitor adversaries around the world. So far ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carried the NROL-146 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to space after liftoff from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT ...

Jan. 10 (UPI) --SpaceX launched new spy satellites into lower Earth orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office, adding to the growing constellation of such U.S.-based intelligence-gathering ...

WASHINGTON — Following the launch of a classified mission April 20, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has reached a new milestone, deploying more than 200 satellites into orbit in just ...

The NRO, an intelligence agency that manages spy satellites, is working to remedy the situation, the spokesperson said. The data was still available on the DOGE website on Friday. Sign up here.

based Xplore. Other companies receiving contracts under NRO’s multi-stage Strategic Commercial Enhancements Broad Agency Announcement Framework include BlackSky Technology, which is based in ...

“Working together, we’ve developed a system in a relatively short amount of time that is going to provide us with unprecedented coverage of what’s going on in the GEO belts,” NRO director Christopher ...

No close up shots of the payload were permitted during the live broadcast by the NRO. "NRO missions provide critical information to more than a half-million government users, including every ...

Recognized as NRO’s highest honor, Pioneers are selected for significant, lasting contributions to national reconnaissance that inspired future innovations. “The Intelligence Community is ...

The NRO wants to use AI and machine learning to help the agency process and send satellite data to ground systems faster, the agency's director said Tuesday at the 2023 GEOINT Symposium in St ...

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 ...