SabreSat: Redwire's vehicle to dart through very low Earth orbit

SabreSat, Redwire Space's satellite for very low Earth orbit, looks more like a dart than a traditional spacecraft. "As you think about aerodynamics, you want the dart to be skinny and long, not stubby and fat," Spence Wise, Redwire senior vice president for missions and platforms, told SpaceNews.

Privateer acquires Orbital Insight

Space situational awareness company Privateer acquired geospatial data analysis firm Orbital Insight in a deal announced May 6.

NATO seeks assistance in data exploitation

NATO is looking to industry for help speeding up intelligence exploitation and understanding. The 32 NATO allies "bring a wealth of intelligence and security capability to the alliance," Scott Bray, NATO assistant secretary general for intelligence and security, said May 7 at the 2024 GEOINT Symposium here. "We actually share quite well."

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Military surveillance constellation fuels debate over who calls the shots

The U.S. military and the intelligence community are developing an ambitious new constellation of satellites designed to track moving targets on the ground. Meanwhile, a debate is unfolding over who should control and task these sensors once they become operational.

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NRO outlines plan to onboard commercial satellite imaging technologies

The head of the National Reconnaissance Office's commercial space office Pete Muend announced plans to create a flexible contracting pipeline to onboard the latest innovations from private remote sensing companies.