The Silent Barker mission, also known as NROL-107, will serve as a 'watchdog' to continually track other objects and detect potential threats in GEO, according to NRO Director Chris Scolese.
While we know there are “multiple payloads” on the upcoming launch, officials have not disclosed how many, what companies were involved in building the satellites or specifics about their design, such as their scanners.
The budget is also unknown but the Government Accountability Office put the estimated cost of the program atIt took only about three years to develop the Silent Barker and it is set to be fully operational in 2026, according to Scolese. The relatively short turn-around is due to the rare collaboration between Space Force and the NRO.
"The IC [Intelligence Community] had an existing design that we could scale up, and we can get there years earlier with, and that was really a deciding factor for partnering with them,” Calvelli said.Raw data from the Silent Barker satellites will most likely remain classified but
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