The National Reconnaissance Office today awarded six commercial vendors study contracts for space-based radio frequency remote sensing, according to an agency press release . Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global and Umbra Lab were each picked for the project, whose contracts are initially valued at $300,000. According to an NRO spokesman, those awards “can quickly be scaled to much higher values as mission value, customer requirements and on-orbit provider capabilities are confirmed.” The contracts will have a...
