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The National Reconnaissance Office funds its own missions separately from the Rocket Systems Launch Program.
NROL-129, a National Reconnaissance Office mission, is scheduled to launch in spring 2020 on a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 from Wallops Island, Virginia.
NROL-111, another National Reconnaissance Office mission, will launch in late 2020 from Wallops Island aboard a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 vehicle.
The contract requires HawkEye 360 to examine the integration of commercial RF capabilities and products into the NRO’s geospatial intelligence architecture.
HawkEye 360 Inc. was awarded a contract from the National Reconnaissance Office for a commercial RF survey study.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded imagery data integration study contracts to Capella Space and HawkEye 360 on 2019-12-11.
A Delta IV Heavy launched NROL-71 for the National Reconnaissance Office in January 2019.
The National Reconnaissance Office began as a secret program in 1960 established jointly by the U.S. Air Force and the CIA.
The National Reconnaissance Office will operate a mix of satellites of many sizes, including proliferated architectures to increase revisit time, reduce latency, provide resiliency, and enable fast refresh.
The National Reconnaissance Office and U.S. Space Command have agreed that in times of conflict the National Reconnaissance Office will take direction from U.S. Space Command.
The National Reconnaissance Office is upgrading its cloud computing infrastructure and using artificial intelligence to help analysts work faster.
The National Reconnaissance Office is expected to award procurement contracts for long-term commercial imagery and data services sometime in 2020.
The WFIRST telescope uses a 2.4-meter primary mirror that NASA inherited from another U.S. government agency, most likely the National Reconnaissance Office.
The two NRO cubesats were manifested as AeroCube 14 and use The Aerospace Corporation’s AeroCube bus.
The NRO cubesats on NG-12 will perform in-space validation of 14 technologies and use a standardized interface under the unclassified Greenlighting program.
Several cubesats aboard NG-12 are intended for later deployment, including two built for the National Reconnaissance Office as part of the IMPACT program.
The NRO launched four other experiments aboard NG-12 that are part of the agency’s Greenlighting program to evaluate performance and space survivability of technologies developed by non-traditional commercial partners.
The U.S. Air Force awarded United Launch Alliance a five-year $1,180,000,000 contract on 2019-09-30 to complete the last planned five Delta IV Heavy National Reconnaissance Office missions from 2020 through 2024.
Toward the end of fiscal year 2020 the National Reconnaissance Office will begin to complete the study contracts announced in June and take steps toward satisfying a larger set of commercial-class GEOINT requirements.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded on 2019-10-15 a commercial imagery contract of undisclosed value to Planet Labs Federal.