. >> nro stands for national reconnaissance office launch.aissance office is the secret version of fafsa. another space agency builds secret satellites. the hubble telescope enters to other telescopes. they build classified reconnaissance satellites for themselves and serve the cia and also built satellites for the nsa. cory: the satellite that blew up a few weeks ago, debris headed toward the earth the telescopes side. >> what happened is, this is actually an air force satellite. defense meteorological satellite program flight 13. the satellite was launched in 1995. in early february, something happened. an astronomer in u.k. the pair of binoculars and i think the thing blew up. about 20 days later, the air force fessed up and confirmed this thing had indeed exploded. not really sure wiped her no one is really saying if anyone knows it all. it is actually not the first time one of these spacecraft had blown up. another one earlier, something similar happened to in 2004. cory: interesting. just access -- jeff bezos. the business around it, wh

so the nro was formed and existed for 30 years as a black agency.words, the existence of the agency itself was a secret. and that was true until 1992. if you were in the air force in the 1980's and worked on spy satellites you said the words "national reconnaissance office" in public, you would be breaking the law. to this day most everything that they do is secret, but the fact of the existence of the agency is no longer a secret. cory: and the speculation is the technology is much more advanced than nasa, but the size of the program is interesting. here is a quote from one of the generals who ran the organization up until recently. specifically what he talked about is sort of the size of this agency. he said " they are undertaking probably the most aggressive launch scheduled that this organization has taken in the last 25 years. " and he went on to say "and there are a number of satellites that will go into orbit in the next year." so these guys are not only launching satellites, but they are launching at a much more aggressive space. trevor: abs

and this is another thing that's a little bit odd about the nro.omething like 95% is made out of contractors at places like lockheed, boeing. so that's another thing when we're talking about civilian space agencies, is the n.r.o. even itself? oscar-winning cinematographer and geographer trevor paglen. we'll be right back talking about sony's push into virtual reality. next. ♪ >> this is the best of "bloomberg west." i am cory johnson. the game developers conference was in town this past week. it's a big deal and the big topic was virtual reality. sony is showing everyone they are the vr player. they just revealed the proto type. they said they want to release this in the first half of 2016. i spoke with the guy who runs this unit for sony, dr. richard marks. >> we have a new headset. it's got new specifications much better than the old one. we also announced the release in the first half of next year. >> how is it better than the older? >> it goes up to 120 frames per second, which is double than we had before. it has a new panel instead of lcd. >>

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