BlackSky, Maxar and Planet awarded billions in NRO contracts

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which provides space-based intelligence and surveillance to the U.S. government, has awarded commercial imagery contracts worth billions to BlackSky (NYSE:BKSY), Maxar (NYSE: MAXR) and Planet (NYSE:PL). The three companies will provide commercial sensing products to the NRO Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) program, which went into effect May 22. EOCL includes […]