National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

The donated hardware required major modifications to become part of the space observatory.

NASA is in the early stage of setting up a headquarters-level office to oversee launch service procurements agencywide, including rideshares.

Editors discusses the latest developments with the NRO, the Victus Haze rendezvous and proximity operations missions, and what awaits the new slate of U.S. defense and intelligence space leadership.

The U.S. office is increasingly incorporating commercial remote-sensing vendors into its space-based architectures as partners instead of as an afterthought.

The National Reconnaissance Office has tapped HawkEye 360 to help operationalize its use of commercial radio frequency (RF) capabilities.

Iceye and Umbra Space say they have secured additional work to furnish synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery to the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.

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National Reconnaissance Office Director Christopher Scolese retired July 10 after leading the intelligence agency since 2019, an agency announcement says.

The National Reconnaissance Office’s proliferated satellite architecture is supporting a new mission area for space-based sensing and targeting.

The National Reconnaissance Office has scheduled the launch date for its next mission for no earlier than May 11, the agency said May 8.

The National Reconnaissance Office is bringing additional remote sensing providers into a flexible contracting mechanism.

The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded the first of three new contracts for commercial remote sensing solutions embracing multiple phenomenologies.

SpaceX successfully carried an undisclosed number of satellites to orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.

The National Reconnaissance Office expects to launch its first mission of the year as early as Jan. 16, the office said Jan.14.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded military space launches worth $739 million to SpaceX to support future missions for the Space Development Agency and NRO.

The U.S. Space Force will lead the acquisition and development of a new surveillance satellite constellation.

Officials says the Department of the Air Force is moving quickly to award multiple competitive contracts for space-based moving target indication assets.

The National Reconnaissance Office is continuing to build out its proliferated satellite constellation.

The U.S. Space Force has assigned five future missions to SpaceX and two missions to United Launch Alliance (ULA).

SpaceX launched the National Reconnaissance Office’s latest mission to build out its proliferated satellite architecture in low Earth orbit.

The U.S. Space Force and its intel partners are deploying the first satellites meant to perform ground moving target indication, a senior service official says.

The U.S. Space Force and National Reconnaissance Office expect to field ground-moving target indicator capabilities as quickly as two years from now.

The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office successfully launched the intelligence agency’s NROL-145 mission on April 20.

The NRO and the U.S. Space Force successfully launched multiple national security payloads for the intelligence agency’s NROL-174 mission.

The National Reconnaissance Office expects to launch a trio of missions this month, two of which will be used to build out its growing satellite constellation.