{"id":171787,"date":"2023-09-11T11:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/space-force-nro-launch-silent-barker-space-observation-satellites"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:27:15","slug":"space-force-nro-launch-silent-barker-space-observation-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/space-force-nro-launch-silent-barker-space-observation-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Space Force, NRO launch \u2018Silent Barker\u2019 space observation satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-nro-launch-silent-barker-space-observation-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office launched their newest space observation satellites today in a largely classified mission called \u201cSilent Barker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/intel-geoint\/2018\/02\/01\/what-we-know-about-the-secret-silent-barker-space-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">The joint mission<\/a> flew Sept. 10 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida. Once operational, the satellites will track objects \u2014 and potentially nefarious activities \u2014 within geosynchronous orbit, about 22,000 miles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking together, we\u2019ve developed a system in a relatively short amount of time that is going to provide us with unprecedented coverage of what\u2019s going on in the GEO belts,\u201d NRO director Christopher Scolese told reporters during an Aug. 28 pre-launch briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office launched their newest space observation satellites today in a largely classified mission called \u201cSilent Barker.\u201d The joint mission flew Sept. 10 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida. Once operational, the satellites will track objects [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}