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The NRO plans to award contracts under the Commercial Electro-Optical Capabilities BAA in the fall of 2023.
The NRO is seeking imaging capabilities beyond those covered by the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer contracts awarded last year to Maxar Technologies, BlackSky, and Planet Labs.
NRO issued a Broad Agency Announcement titled "Commercial Electro-Optical Capabilities" on 2023-08-14.
The 2024 mission supports Xtenti’s follow-on study contract with the National Reconnaissance Office to demonstrate FANTM-RiDE’s rapid payload reconfiguration capabilities.
The National Reconnaissance Office, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and U.S. Space Command signed a Commercial Space Protection Tri-Seal Strategic Framework to improve threat intelligence sharing with commercial satellite operators.
NRO plans to integrate commercial, allied, and Department of Defense capabilities with NRO systems to expand worldwide coverage, increase persistence, enhance resiliency, improve product timeliness, and assure routine and reliable access to space.
The National Reconnaissance Office seeks to collaborate with industry and academia on advanced technologies for satellites and ground systems.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded a contract on 2023-08-08 with Firefly Aerospace and Xtenti for a responsive space mission.
The NRO mission is scheduled to launch on a Firefly Alpha launch vehicle in 2024.
As Deputy Program Director in the National Reconnaissance Office, Shawn Hendricks led spacecraft production for a $13,000,000,000 national imagery satellite.
Kleos Space signed agreements last year with the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office to provide radio-frequency data.
In 1971, the NRO experts viewed SPIN SCAN as the best choice for an interim crisis reconnaissance system.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off on 2023-06-22 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The NRO is the U.S. Intelligence Community agency responsible for developing, acquiring, launching, and operating America’s reconnaissance satellites and associated data processing facilities in support of national security.
The NROL-68 payload was launched into Geosynchronous Earth Orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy for the National Reconnaissance Office.
ULA is under contract to launch one more National Reconnaissance Office satellite on the Delta 4 Heavy in 2024 from Cape Canaveral.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office launched on 2023-06-22 at 5:18 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
United Launch Alliance launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite on a Delta 4 Heavy rocket on 2023-06-22 at 5:18 a.m. Eastern.
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-68 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37B at 5:18 a.m. Eastern on 2023-06-22.
The National Reconnaissance Office uses a variety of satellites, from small satellites to larger traditional satellites, to pursue a hybrid architecture designed to provide global coverage and meet a range of intelligence requirements.