NRO Expects More Secretive GEO Awareness Satellites

A National Reconnaissance Office payload launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, in April 2022.

Credit: U.S. Space Force
COLORADO SPRINGS—The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) expects to ultimately launch multiple satellites to provide space situational awareness in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) as part of an ongoing joint program with the U.S. Space Force. The NRO and Space Force will launch the SilentBarker...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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