The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense and a member of the United States Intelligence Community that designs, builds, launches, and operates reconnaissance satellites for the U.S. federal government. It provides satellite intelligence, including signals intelligence (SIGINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), to various government agencies like the NSA, NGA, and DIA. The NRO partners with organizations such as the U.S. Space Force, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX, and its activities include developing advanced satellite technology and launching assets into orbit. Keywords associated with the NRO include: reconnaissance satellites, intelligence, national security, and space-based surveillance.
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NROL-91 was the 10th Delta 4 Heavy mission launched for the National Reconnaissance Office.
United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch a Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office mission on 2022-09-24 from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
The National Reconnaissance Office develops, acquires, launches, and operates America’s reconnaissance satellites and associated data processing facilities in support of national security.
The National Reconnaissance Office is partnering with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence to launch the Prometheus-2 mission on a Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket later in 2022.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket is launching the NROL-91 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2022-09-24 at 2:53 p.m. PDT (5:53 p.m. EDT; 2153 UTC).
NROL-91 carries a national security payload designed, built, and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office to provide intelligence data to senior U.S. policymakers, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Defense.
NROL-91 is the National Reconnaissance Office’s fifth launch of 2022 and is part of more than a half-dozen planned launches for the year.
National Reconnaissance Office data supports the National Security Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and other NRO mission partners to produce intelligence products.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded 10-year imagery contracts in May to Maxar Technologies, BlackSky, and Planet Labs.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates the United States’ spy satellites and is responsible for buying commercial imagery.
The National Reconnaissance Office develops, acquires, launches, and operates the United States’ intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates the United States' classified spy satellites and is responsible for buying commercial imagery.
The National Reconnaissance Office has been working for years on a strategy to acquire emerging commercial satellite capabilities.
The 2022 GEOINT Innovation Summit will feature Didi Kuo, DISES, PhD, Chief Architect of the Geospatial Intelligence Systems Acquisition Directorate at the National Reconnaissance Office, as a senior-level speaker.
The National Reconnaissance Office has not awarded similar long-term contracts to providers of radar, RF, and hyperspectral imagery.
Commercial providers, on average, deliver over 75,000 images every week into the National Reconnaissance Office’s ground enterprise.
The National Reconnaissance Office is the U.S. intelligence agency responsible for developing, launching, and operating the nation’s spy satellites.
In January the National Reconnaissance Office selected five suppliers of commercial synthetic aperture radar imagery.
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to sign agreements that give the agency access to data collected by companies’ commercial satellites to enable government analysts to evaluate data quality.
BlackSky won the Electro Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) award with the National Reconnaissance Office with a total value up to $1,021,000,000 over the next 10 years.