The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is a research and development agency within the Department of Defense. Its mission is to develop and deploy a layered missile defense system to protect the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight. MDA is developing space-based sensors for tracking ballistic and hypersonic missiles and works with partners like the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Navy on testing and deployment. Keywords associated with MDA include missile defense, ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, space-based sensors, and interceptor technology.
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The Missile Defense Agency deployed two CubeSats developed by Space Micro with integrated radio frequency payloads based on Space Micro’s µSDR-C family of small form factor software-defined radios.
The Missile Defense Agency retired the CNCE Block 1 satellites in March 2022 and the satellites will de-orbit and burn up in the atmosphere.
The Missile Defense Agency deployed two CubeSats developed by Space Micro with integrated radio frequency (RF) payloads based on Space Micro’s μSDR-C™ family of small form factor software defined radios.
The Missile Defense Agency retired the CNCE Block 1 satellites in March 2022 and the satellites will de-orbit and burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.
Northrop Grumman Corporation was awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a maximum amount of $3,286,745,005 by the Missile Defense Agency for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense Weapon System program.
A fifth L3Harris missile-detection satellite developed for the Missile Defense Agency is expected to launch to low Earth orbit in 2023 with a classified specific timeframe.
The Missile Defense Agency plans to launch two HBTSS prototypes, one from L3Harris and one from Northrop Grumman, to test sensor capabilities to track hypersonic and dim upper-stage ballistic missiles.
L3Harris is developing a missile-detection satellite under a $121,000,000 contract with the Missile Defense Agency for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program (HBTSS).
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a missile-tracking study contract in 2019 and a prototype demonstration contract in January 2021.
USSF-124 is a U.S. Space Force and Missile Defense Agency mission that will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Eastern Range into low Earth orbit.
Clear Space Force Station near Fairbanks, Alaska hosts a long-range discrimination radar constructed by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to track ballistic missiles.
Northrop Grumman has more than 2,200 employees across Colorado supporting customers that include the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and the intelligence community.
The Missile Defense Agency has a technology demonstration scheduled for March 2023 that SDA is tracking to improve missile-tracking accuracy.
The Missile Defense Agency will launch two prototype infrared satellites in late 2023, one from L3Harris and one from Northrop Grumman, to conduct experiments.
The mission of the Missile Defense Agency is to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight.
The Missile Defense Agency retired two Space Tracking and Surveillance System demonstration satellites on 2022-03-08.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency decommissioned two missile-tracking satellites that operated in low Earth orbit for more than 12 years.
In 2009 the Missile Defense Agency launched two STSS satellites and the Pentagon abandoned the original SBIRS Low goal of a 24-satellite constellation as costs escalated.
The Missile Defense Agency requested $15,200,000 in its 2022 budget to retire the STSS satellites and close out the program.
L3Harris is collaborating with the Missile Defense Agency to provide prototype HBTSS satellites intended to demonstrate sensitivity and fire-control quality of service necessary to support the hypersonic kill chain.