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The Space Development Agency is an organization under the U.S. Space Force building a mesh network of military satellites known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
The Space Development Agency is procuring satellites in two-year tranches to build out a proliferated constellation in low Earth orbit.
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has been selected by the Space Development Agency to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites (T2TL – Beta).
Four of the USSF-124 satellites are missile-tracking sensors manufactured by L3Harris for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer constellation.
The Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer is envisioned as a global network of sensors to provide a defense shield against Russian and Chinese ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Four L3Harris Transport Layer satellites were originally scheduled to launch in September with other Space Development Agency satellites but were removed from the launch manifest due to production delays.
Rocket Lab won two contracts in 2022 worth $14,000,000 to provide separation systems for Space Development Agency satellites.
Space Development Agency planned to add another 18 Beta satellites and was negotiating with a third vendor to do so.
In August, the Space Development Agency awarded $1,500,000,000 in contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for 72 Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta satellites.
The 2022 separation-system contracts cover systems for 84 satellites made by Lockheed Martin and another undisclosed manufacturer supplying satellites to the Space Development Agency.
L3Harris completed the Production Readiness Review for 16 missile-tracking satellites that will be part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer (T1TRK) program.
The Production Readiness Review provides the Space Development Agency with approval for L3Harris to begin the full production process for the 16 T1TRK satellites.
L3Harris completed the Critical Design Review for 16 missile-tracking satellites that will be part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer (T1TRK) program.
Kepler’s network is an SDA-compatible space relay network designed to provide low-latency, high-throughput optical communications and 24/7 on-orbit capabilities.
Kepler Communications’ space relay network is designed to be Space Development Agency–compatible and to provide low-latency, high-throughput on-orbit data relay services.
Under Tranche 0, L3Harris developed four prototype wide field-of-view satellites for the SDA and one prototype medium field-of-view satellite for the Missile Defense Agency.
L3Harris received Space Development Agency approval on 2023-12-20 to move into production on 16 satellites designed to detect and monitor hypersonic missiles aimed at the United States or its allies.
L3Harris completed the Critical Design Review and Production Readiness Review for 16 missile-tracking satellites that will be part of the SDA’s T1TRK program.
Orbital Micro Systems was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Other Transaction Authority agreement by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency aims to run an 11-launch campaign over 11 months starting in September 2024.