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NRO Open To Flying Payloads On Reusable Rockets

Pat Host

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

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NRO Open To Flying Payloads On Reusable Rockets

SpaceX lands its Falcon 9 on its floating water barge after its April 8 launch. Photo: SpaceX.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is open to flying payloads on reusable rockets in the future, though it is unsure exactly how that will unfold, presumably because the technology is in its infancy.NRO Director for Signals Intelligence Systems Acquisition Tina Harrington said Thursday there would be a risk calculation to assess where reusable rockets might work with certain classes of NRO payloads. At the Hosted Payload and Small Satellite Summit in Washington, hosted by Defense Daily parent company Access Intelligence,…

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