DENVER ― The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded three new contracts to providers of commercial satellite data, a senior spy satellite agency official said today.
Pete Muend, the head of NRO’s Commercial Systems Program Office, told the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s annual GEOINT Symposium here that latest awards under the agency’s Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO) contract vehicle have gone to:
- Canadian startup Earth Daily, to provide electro-optical imagery;
- ICEYE, to provide radio frequency geo-location data; and
- Indian startup Pixxel, to provide hyperspectral imagery.
Both Earth Daily and Pixxel are brand new providers, whereas ICEYE has a previous NRO contract to provide synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery.
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