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Government Exploring Longer-Term Acquisition Of Commercial Satellite Radar Imagery

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

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Government Exploring Longer-Term Acquisition Of Commercial Satellite Radar Imagery

Capella Space satellite radar image.

Pleased with successes so far in acquiring and exploiting commercially-developed space-based remote sensing imagery and data, the executive branch is working toward establishing a program of record for commercial satellite radar capabilities, an intelligence community official said this week. Study contracts that the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded during the past few years to obtain imagery and data from commercial vendors who are operating satellites sensing phenomenologies on Earth to include electro-optical, radar, radio-frequency, and hyper-spectral have been “very…

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