U.S. Looks Abroad For Space SAR Needs

By Amy Butler
Washington

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has emerged as the government-wide manager of a new service, providing commercial synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from spacecraft.

But despite all of the resources and ingenuity the U.S. government and industry have put into space, not a single American company is alone capable of providing this service ...

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