reconnaissance
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Its biggest single client in 2025 was the National Reconnaissance Office, a U.S. spy agency that uses space assets to monitor the ground for national-security officials.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Space Force and the National Reconnaissance Office, aside from commercial customers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2026
This research was supported by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission, which launched on June 18, 2009.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025
A US Air Force plane from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters, flies into the eye of Hurricane Melissa, as the category 5 Hurricane approaches Jamaica.
From Barron's • Oct. 28, 2025
“Spying is when you go undercover. Be secret. Reconnaissance is scoping out the enemy on their home turf.”
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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