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Proliferated Constellation Nearing 200 Satellites, NRO Deputy Says

The NRO has launched 11 missions since May 2024 to build out the proliferated LEO constellation. The latest, NROL-148, was ...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket set to carry national security payload for U.S. Military

SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch the classified NROL-77 national security payload for the U.S. military’s National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral.
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Falcon 9 Launch Expands NRO Satellite Fleet Beyond 200

What it takes to have a country’s eyes and ears in continuous motion over the planet. On September 22, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 1:38 p.m.
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SpaceX Has Wildly Screwed Up Its Military Satellites, Researcher Finds

A new fleet of US spy satellites might be in huge trouble thanks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, at least according to one engineer.
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Space GMTI Evolution Of U.S. Satellite Proliferation, NRO Official Says

The number of U.S. satellites in a proliferated, low Earth orbit, ground moving target indication (GMTI) constellation will hinge on revisit rates ...
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From The Archives: House, Senate At Odds Over Intel Smallsats

In the fall of 1995, the cash-strapped National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was battling efforts in Congress to force it to adapt smallsat technologies more quickly for U.S. spy satellites ...