Asset provenance

Visual References & Credits

Real systems, documentary photographs, and source-verified marks provide the visual context for this page. The mission-environment photographs illustrate real systems and operations; they do not identify Virt personnel, customers, or projects. Team portraits are identified separately below. The homepage also includes the conceptual illustration identified below. Agency marks are original source assets.

Connected operations — homepage

The “Connect with purpose” homepage image is an AI-generated, photorealistic conceptual illustration created for Virt at its request. It depicts communications among troops, drones, naval ships, and an orbital satellite. It is not a documentary photograph, a depiction of a specific exercise, or evidence of an operational system or Virt customer relationship. Connection lines and cross-domain scale are illustrative.

Eclipse™ launch vehicle

The Our Approach hero uses an official Northrop Grumman rendering of the Eclipse vehicle co-developed with Firefly Aerospace. This is a manufacturer rendering, not a photograph of an actual launch.

Image credit: Northrop Grumman / Firefly Aerospace. Eclipse reference page ↗

National Space Defense Center

Navy Lt. Nicole Breen and Air Force Master Sgt. Kenneth Bangay work at a console in the National Space Defense Center at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, on February 4, 2021.

Photo credit: U.S. Space Force / Kathryn Damon. VIRIN: 210204-F-UM970-0009. DVIDS photograph and caption ↗

Houston Mission Control

Expedition 40 flight controllers monitor the docking of the Georges Lemaître Automated Transfer Vehicle-5 to the International Space Station on August 12, 2014.

Photo credit: NASA / Lauren Harnett. Image: JSC2014-E-077199. NASA photograph and caption ↗

Spacecraft integration

James Webb Space Telescope hardware in Northrop Grumman’s cleanroom in Redondo Beach, California. This still comes from documentary footage published in July 2018.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Footage by Michael McClare and Sophia Roberts. NASA source and production credits ↗

Earth from orbit

Earth’s curved horizon over cloudy Western Australia, photographed from the International Space Station on November 20, 2020.

Photo credit: NASA / International Space Station. Image: ISS064-E-005209. NASA photograph and caption ↗

Supplied commercial-system imagery

Virt supplied the following images and their system identifications for the Our Approach page. These source files are reproduced unchanged; the page scales them to fit its layout. Renderings and interface graphics are illustrative, rather than photographs of operational activity.

• Precursor — Understand: original ionosphere diagram extracted from slide 3 of Precursor IANE Product Description Draft v2. The diagram shows flight paths and satellite links across the D, E, and F regions.
• Aptos Orbital — Align: supplied onboard processing hardware rendering.
• Moog Meteorite — Position: supplied spacecraft bus rendering.
• Stell — Connect: supplied requirements interface graphic.
• Catalyx Space — Compete: supplied spacecraft rendering.
• Avalanche Energy — Transition: supplied nuclear-power hardware photograph.
• Gravitics — Scale: supplied comparison rendering of 4-meter, 6-meter, and 8-meter modules.
• Hop Aero — Execution: supplied concept rendering of a vehicle in atmospheric flight.
• Tendeg — Execution: supplied deployable-antenna photograph.
• Impulse Mira — Real-World Experience: supplied spacecraft photograph.

These references illustrate technologies and capabilities. Their placement does not identify Virt clients, contracts, or participation in the pictured projects. Original publication URLs and photographer credits were not included with the supplied commercial-system images.

Team portraits

Portraits of Robert Atkins, Israel “Fig” Figueroa, Jose Rodriguez, Levi Almond, Kristin Atkins, and Zaira Martinez are AI-assisted edits based on photographs supplied by Virt. Rob, Fig, and Levi supplied separate headshots; Jose and Zaira’s source portraits were extracted from their biography PDFs. Kristin’s portrait uses two supplied reference photographs and was approved by Virt.

At Virt’s request, the portraits use coordinated gray studio backgrounds and black professional attire. Rob’s portrait also includes his requested close buzz cut, edited from his latest supplied photograph. These are edited portraits rather than photographs from a shared studio session. Original source files are retained. Andy Johnson and Tesa Coton are represented by typographic initials because photographs have not been supplied.

Virt logo

The Virt emblem is the original logo file supplied by Virt Space Strategies. The file is displayed proportionally without redrawing, cropping, recoloring, or image modification.

Service marks

• U.S. Space Force logo: source and file history. Organization reference: Space Force logo and motto.
• U.S. Air Force symbol: source and file history. Organization reference: Air Force Trademark & Licensing Office.

Imagery and service marks identify the mission landscape. Their appearance does not imply endorsement, partnership, contracts, or customer relationships. Respective owners retain their marks and applicable rights.