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The National Reconnaissance Office is committed to ensuring the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and its customers continue to have access to Planet imagery for creating value-added geospatial products for partners and policy makers.
In June 2019 the National Reconnaissance Office awarded study contracts to BlackSky, Maxar Technologies, and Planet to evaluate how commercial imagery providers could satisfy NRO needs relative to EnhancedView.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates a fleet of satellites including very large systems, smallsats, and cubesats.
Maxar won study contracts with Planet and BlackSky from the National Reconnaissance Office in June to assess commercial provider capabilities.
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded United Launch Alliance a five-year $1,180,000,000 contract for Launch Operations Support to complete the last planned five Delta 4 Heavy National Reconnaissance Office missions from 2020 through 2024.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy has been certified for national security missions but was not able to meet the mission-unique requirements for very large NRO satellites needing difficult orbits at the time the launches were acquired in 2016 and 2017.
The National Reconnaissance Office operated a Keyhole (KH-11) class electro-optical imaging satellite program that began launches in the late 1970s.
Martin Faga was director of the National Reconnaissance Office from 1989 to 1993.
The National Reconnaissance Office awarded its first commercial hyperspectral imaging study contract to HySpecIQ on 2019-09-23.
The NRO’s newly created Commercial Systems Program Office will oversee the procurement of imagery.
In February the Air Force selected Falcon Heavy for the AFSPC-44 mission as part of a $297,000,000 contract that also includes two Falcon 9 launches for NRO satellites NROL-85 and NROL-87.
Maxar Technologies provides imagery and data products on a realtime and near-realtime basis to defense and intelligence customers, including the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and to allied countries.
The National Reconnaissance Office operates with a more streamlined organization and can move faster than the Department of Defense acquisition processes.
WFIRST will use a 2.4-meter mirror provided to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office.
AeroCube 7 launched as a secondary payload on a ULA Atlas V rocket that carried a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite.
All future Delta 4 Heavy missions will support United States Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office customers.
The National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-82 mission is planned to launch on a Delta 4 Heavy from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California in 2020.
The National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-44 mission is planned to launch on a Delta 4 Heavy from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2020.
Under a 2018 Launch Vehicle Production Services contract, United Launch Alliance is building Delta 4 Heavy hardware for three National Reconnaissance Office missions and the contract is now worth $467,500,000 after a $149,000,000 modification in May 2020 and a $156,700,000 modification earlier in August 2020.
In the event of conflict extending to space, the NRO will take direction from the commander of U.S. Space Command and execute defensive operations based on a jointly developed playbook.