SpaceX is reportedly building a network of spy satellites for US intelligence

Image SpaceX's Starshield unit has had a classified contract with the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) since 2021 to build a network of "hundreds" of spy satellites for the agency, Reuters reports today, citing unnamed sources "familiar with the program." A Wall Street Journal report in February listed a classified $1.8 billion SpaceX contract with a then-unnamed government agency. Now Reuters has attached a name, and that it's to build a network of "hundreds of satellites bearing Earth-i...