{"id":6385,"date":"2024-10-31T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/national-reconnaissance-office-launches-nrol-167-proliferated-constellation-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:34:06","slug":"national-reconnaissance-office-launches-nrol-167-proliferated-constellation-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/national-reconnaissance-office-launches-nrol-167-proliferated-constellation-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"National Reconnaissance Office Launches NROL-167 Proliferated Constellation Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/NROL_167_cover_638658082474203140.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"377\" alt=\"National Reconnaissance Office Launches NROL-167 Proliferated Constellation Mission\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/NROL_167_cover_638658082474203140.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/NROL_167_cover_638658082474203140.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"377\"><\/p>\n<p>The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-167 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 24, 2024 at 1:13 p.m. EDT.<\/p>\n<p>This mission is the fourth launch of the NRO\u2019s proliferated architecture and signifies the NRO\u2019s increased launch frequency and delivery on orbit for this program. Beside the four proliferated space architecture missions, the NRO has had two other launched missions this year, the NROL-123 research mission aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Wallops Island, on March 21 and NROL-70 from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV heavy rocket, Delta\u2019s final mission.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more than 60 years, the NRO has successfully met the needs of its U.S. intelligence, military, civil, and allied partners. As part of NRO\u2019s response to environments that may include Chinese and Russian anti-satellite weapons and advanced Chinese intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance &nbsp;satellites, a reduction in launch costs is aiding an NRO move to a proliferated satellite set up in a variety of orbits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NRO\u2019s first proliferated architecture launch on May 22nd followed demonstration satellite launches the past few years to verify cost and performance. The NRO\u2019s next-generation systems will help ensure that the right data is delivered to the right user at the right time, faster than ever before. More than half a dozen launches supporting NRO\u2019s proliferated architecture are planned for 2024, with additional launches expected through 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 30 and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-167 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 24, 2024 at 1:13 p.m. EDT. This mission is the fourth launch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}