The NRO operates the nation’s spy satellites and acquires commercial satellite imagery used by military commanders and ...

The Falcon 9 launch of the NROL-167 mission Oct. 24 was the latest to deploy satellites for a proliferated NRO constellation. Credit: SpaceX HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The National Reconnaissance Office is ...

What is there in sending several satellites into space at once that still interests intelligence agencies, which prefer to ...

An artist’s conception shows Starfish Space’s Otter spacecraft in orbit with another satellite in the background. (Starfish Space Illustration) Tukwila, Wash.-based Starfish Space and two other ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday night. Credit: SpaceX photo Carrying clandestine cargo, a Falcon 9 ...

In the early hours of a spring 2024 morning, a Falcon 9 rocket climbed away from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying a payload the National Reconnaissance Office would describe only in the broadest ...

A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off early Easter Sunday to place another set of spy satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Credit: Contributed photo Shrouded by fog, a Falcon 9 rocket ...

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has said that it has launched more than 200 proliferated low Earth orbit satellites ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Nov. 30 carrying a batch of satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office and 20 Starlink spacecraft. Credit: NRO The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) ...

The U.S. Space Force and NRO launch a Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV rocket on April 16. Credit: NRO The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the U.S. Space Force successfully launched multiple ...

The National Reconnaissance Office, in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s Small Launch and Targets Division, Space Launch Delta 30, and Northrop Grumman, successfully launched ...