NRO chief: βYou canβt hideβ from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites
5 November 2024 at 21:49
The director of the National Reconnaissance Office has a message for US adversaries around the world.
"You canβt hide, because weβre constantly looking," said Chris Scolese, a longtime NASA engineer who took the helm of the US government's spy satellite agency in 2019.
The NRO is taking advantage of SpaceX's Starlink satellite assembly line to build a network of at least 100 satellites, and perhaps many more, to monitor adversaries around the world. So far, more than 80 of these SpaceX-made spacecraft, each a little less than a ton in mass, have launched on four Falcon 9 rockets. There are more to come.