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The 2024-03-21 mission was designated NROL-123 by the National Reconnaissance Office.
The launch service for NROL-123 was acquired using the NRO’s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract.
The NRO uses Broad Area Announcements to engage with the private space sector.
The NRO's Broad Area Announcement includes methodologies for calculating the performance of spacecraft propellant.
The NRO is interested in artificial intelligence for ground operations, including AI and machine-learning implementation into telemetry, tracking, and command.
The NRO aims to rely on commercial space companies and new disruptive technologies for its expansion.
The 2024-03-21 launch was the fifth and last mission under a Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket (RASR) contract between the NRO and Rocket Lab that dates back to 2020.
Rocket Lab launched a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office from Virginia on 2024-03-21.
The NRO's Broad Area Announcement includes on-orbit logistics such as refueling, docking interfaces, and de-orbiting.
The National Reconnaissance Office is seeking proposals from private industry for its space launch operations.
National Reconnaissance Office missions provide critical information to more than a half-million government users, including every member of the U.S. Intelligence Community, two dozen domestic agencies, the military, lawmakers, and decision makers.
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to launch one of its largest-ever satellites on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy vehicle.
The National Reconnaissance Office acquires and operates the United States government’s spy satellites.
Maj. Gen. Christopher Povak, deputy director of the NRO, expects that proliferation and diversification of the agency’s architecture will provide increased coverage, greater capacity and resilience, more timely delivery of data, and make it more difficult for adversaries to harm U.S. intelligence infrastructure.
In 2022 Maxar won a $3,200,000,000 contract to provide imagery to the National Reconnaissance Office over 10 years.
SpaceX’s Starshield business unit has a $1,800,000,000 contract with the National Reconnaissance Office signed in 2021 to build spy satellites.
Elon Musk–led SpaceX is building hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with the National Reconnaissance Office.
Rocket Lab’s next launch is scheduled to liftoff no earlier than 2024-03-20, from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Rocket Lab’s next launch is scheduled to liftoff no earlier than 2024-03-20 from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Rocket Lab’s next launch is scheduled no earlier than 2024-03-20 from Launch Complex 2 in Wallops, Virginia for the National Reconnaissance Office.