Iceye and Umbra Space say they have secured additional work to furnish synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery to the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
National Reconnaissance Office Director Christopher Scolese retired July 10 after leading the intelligence agency since 2019, an agency announcement says.
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded the first of three new contracts for commercial remote sensing solutions embracing multiple phenomenologies.
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.
Officials says the Department of the Air Force is moving quickly to award multiple competitive contracts for space-based moving target indication assets.
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 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.
The USAF is debating whether to cancel a series of current and future contracts for the Space Development Agency and to use SpaceX-built assets instead.
The NROL-57 mission was launched March 21 at 2:49 a.m. EDT, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg SFB, California.
The demonstrator consists of two 6U cubesats designed by NRO’s advanced systems and tech directorate to support an “experimental technology research mission.”
