Federal Satellite Buy Plan, BASIC, Scrapped
Cost was the main reason according to an AP story which explains that House and Senate intelligence appropriations committees cut all the funding for 2009 along with what was left for 2008. The National Reconnaissance Office, NRO, planned to acquire two birds, like those of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye for launch around 2012. BASIC, the Broad Area Space-Based Imagery Collection satellite system including funding for those and monies to acquire additional commercial imagery.
by Adena Schutzberg on 10/21 at 09:20 AM |
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