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The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office plans to quadruple the number of satellites on orbit over the next decade. It will need commercial space companies to help do it.The spy agency's success toward that goal will involve "a combination of our partnerships with industry, the advancement of technology, and the coincident reduction in cost of all of those systems," said NRO Director Chris Scolese, in a rare interview for CNBC's "Manifest Space" podcast."It's helped us improve our reliability so that we can achieve more…

A US intelligence agency said Wednesday that its newest spy satellite successfully launched into orbit atop a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.The SpaceX rocket took off at 12:27 pm local time (01:57am IST on February 3) from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which is in charge of the US Space Force, said in a statement.After releasing the satellite, dubbed NROL-87, into orbit, the Falcon 9 rocket then landed back at the base, the agency said."NROL-87 is designed, built,…

Maxar collected new satellite imagery of the southern Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk that reveals a Russian Alligator-class landing ship that is burned and partially submerged near one of the ports loading/unloading quays.Maxar Technologies | Getty ImagesThe National Reconnaissance Office on Wednesday announced contracts worth "billions of dollars" over the next decade to a trio of satellite imagery companies: Maxar, Planet and BlackSky.Maxar, in a securities filing, said its 10-year EOCL contract is worth up to $3.24…