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The $740,000,000 SDA contract falls under the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, specifically the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer.
Rocket Lab is executing a $515,000,000 prime contract with the Space Development Agency to build 18 spacecraft for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer program.
The Sierra Space satellites for the SDA Tranche 2 Tracking Layer are scheduled to launch in 2027.
The first stage booster supporting the 2024-10-30 mission completed its 14th flight after previously launching SDA-0A, Transporter-11, SARah-2, and 11 Starlink missions.
Lockheed Martin integrated Terran Orbital’s satellite buses into military projects, including a low Earth orbit satellite program led by the Space Development Agency.
LeoStella partnered with BlackSky as a subcontractor for the HALO competitive program and is pre-qualified to work directly with the Space Development Agency to develop on-orbit mission-feasibility prototypes.
The Space Development Agency selected LeoStella to support the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (HALO) program.
The HALO acquisition mechanism enables nontraditional defense contractors to work directly with the Space Development Agency to produce rapid on-orbit mission-feasibility prototypes.
The first stage booster supporting NROL-167 previously launched NROL-113, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and 14 Starlink missions.
HALO is designed to test and refine technologies before integrating them into the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
For the Space Development Agency, achieving the Transport Layer capability requires a large field of regard spanning up and down across orbital geometry.
The first stage booster for NROL-167 previously launched NROL-113, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and 14 Starlink missions.
Justin Luczyk is general manager of Tesat Government and views Starlink primarily as a competitor to the Space Development Agency because Starlink provides a transport layer serving many users with data.
SDA established the HALO program to enable a fast and flexible contracting mechanism to award Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation System (T2DES) missions and other demonstrations supporting its military satellite constellation.
Dr Derek Tournear, Director of the Space Development Agency, delivered a keynote at Silicon Valley Space Week MilSat Symposium on 2024-10-23.
CesiumAstro was selected by the Space Development Agency for the Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) program on 2024-10-23.
The Space Development Agency cooperates with foreign partners including Australia.
The Space Development Agency plans to have the Tranche 3 batch of satellites in place starting in 2029.
The Space Development Agency signed a similar agreement in 2021 with Capella Space, another commercial synthetic aperture radar satellite operator.
The Space Development Agency is creating common and joint standards for space communications that still need incorporation and testing.