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In 2024, six launches supporting the National Reconnaissance Office’s proliferated architecture were successfully completed.
The NRO plans to continue expanding the constellation through 2028.
The National Reconnaissance Office marked completion of an 18-month period that began with NROL-68 in June 2023 and ended with NROL-149 in December 2024.
SpaceX launched the first four batches of NRO proliferated-architecture satellites to low Earth orbit in May, June, September, and October of 2024.
Those ten National Reconnaissance Office missions successfully delivered more than 100 payloads to orbit during the 18-month period from June 2023 through December 2024.
Ten National Reconnaissance Office missions launched during the 18-month period from June 2023 through December 2024.
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is pursuing a hybrid approach to future intelligence space architecture and has issued contracts for commercial data acquisition.
The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office announced in December 2017 that they would partner to develop Silent Barker as a replacement for the Space-Based Space Surveillance System.
The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office jointly developed and launched Silent Barker.
Umbra Space was one of several SAR imaging companies the National Reconnaissance Office selected in 2022 for study contracts.
Umbra Space secured a contract extension with the National Reconnaissance Office on 2024-12-04.
Umbra Space has worked with the National Reconnaissance Office since 2022 under the Strategic Commercial Enhancements initiative.
NROL-126 was the fifth launch of the National Reconnaissance Office’s proliferated architecture of imaging satellites built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman.
The National Reconnaissance Office partnered with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX for the Falcon 9 launch of the NROL-126 mission on 2024-11-30 at 12:10 a.m. PT.
The National Reconnaissance Office is seeking to rapidly deploy a new network of satellites designed to track ground targets in near real time.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-126 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2024-11-30.
The 2024-11-24 HASTE launch was the first launch from Launch Complex 2 since an Electron mission for the National Reconnaissance Office in 2024-03-01 and the fifth overall launch from that pad.
The FASTBACK system concept was presented to the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) by Martin Marietta in the early 1970s.
The National Reconnaissance Office typically procures specific launches through the U.S. Space Force rather than procuring those launches directly.
The National Reconnaissance Office is deploying a proliferated low Earth orbit constellation that has involved four launches since May, most recently on 2024-10-24.