Comments on: Another milspace review http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/04/26/another-milspace-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-milspace-review Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Allen Thomson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/04/26/another-milspace-review/#comment-12551 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:47:22 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/04/26/another-milspace-review/#comment-12551 Speaking of milspace/intelspace programs, I’d guess that this means the FIA optical program is still several years from getting back on track, if indeed it ever does. As likely a possibility, IMO, is that the stopgap program will become the baseline.

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Ocean Recons Readied – NRO readies sea surveillance flight, optical
satellite procurement
Craig Covault/
AviationWeek.com
Sunday, April 29, 2007
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[Stuff about upcoming NOSS 3 launch deleted.]

At the same time that the NRO is readying the ocean surveillance mission, the agency is also initiating a several hundred million-dollar procurement for a new stopgap optical imaging system.

The new system is aimed at enabling the intelligence community to recover from delays in the Future Imagining Architecture (FIA) program, which has yet to launch an operational satellite.

The delays occurred because of poor Boeing performance in the optical
program that has now been given to Lockheed Martin. Boeing has
retained the imaging-radar half of the program (AW&ST Sept. 5, 2005,
p. 23).

The new spacecraft are especially needed to obtain imaging intelligence of China, Iran and North Korea as older imaging reconnaissance satellites expire. The competitors will likely be DigitalGlobe and GeoEye.

]]> By: Allen Thomson http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/04/26/another-milspace-review/#comment-12510 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:50:49 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2007/04/26/another-milspace-review/#comment-12510 This has been going on for years and years and years. Somebody could get a Ph.D. dissertation just out of finding the dozens of such studies and doing a modest bit of comparison among them. Likely they mostly came up with the same completely obvious recommendations.

Not, of course, that any has a discernible effect.

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