The NRO is planning to award new contracts for commercial satellite imagery, perhaps including that of other satellites, the spy-sat agency's head of commercial operations, Pete Muend, said today.
In this file photo, Army Gen. James Dickinson, U.S. Space Command commander, speaks to members of the Joint Task Force-Space Defense during a town hall at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado, Jan. 17, 2023. On May 16, 2023, Dickinson spoke about the.
From antennas that can only "talk" to one satellite at a time to much of the work in the control center being done by paper, operators told reporters on a rare tour of the ops center that they're in dire need of modernization.