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To date, the Space Development Agency has announced awards to Northrop Grumman for 132 satellites.
The 38 satellites awarded to Northrop Grumman will support Tranche 2 Transport Layer – Alpha (T2TL-Alpha) of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
SDA awarded Northrop Grumman 36 satellites in August 2023 as part of Tranche 2 Transport Layer – Beta (T2TL-Beta).
The first stage booster on the 2023-10-29 Vandenberg Falcon 9 launch was flying its seventh mission and had previously launched the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 mission and six Starlink missions.
In August 2023, SDA completed awards for 72 T2TL Beta variant space vehicles that form the foundation of the Tranche 2 data transport mission.
On 2023-10-30, the Space Development Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $732,000,000 contract for 38 communications satellites that will be part of the U.S. military’s low Earth orbit space architecture.
Northrop Grumman has won orders from the Space Development Agency for 132 satellites for the Transport and the Tracking Layer to date.
TESAT’s Optical Communication Terminals passed interoperability testing for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to be built by Lockheed Martin.
TESAT was selected to deliver optical communications terminals to Lockheed Martin for integration on Lockheed Martin’s 42 SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites.
The Space Development Agency ordered LEO missile-tracking satellites from L3Harris and Northrop Grumman at about $47,000,000 per satellite.
The Falcon 9 first stage used for the 29 October 2023 Vandenberg Starlink launch was flying its seventh mission, having previously launched the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 mission and six Starlink missions.
The 38 Northrop Grumman satellites are for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 2 Alpha, which will have a total of 100 satellites.
The Space Development Agency plans to deploy a mesh network of interconnected satellites that includes a Transport Layer to transmit data collected by a Tracking Layer of missile-detection sensor satellites.
TESAT’s Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) passed interoperability testing for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites.
Terran Orbital has a deal to provide 36 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin for the Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta of the Space Development Agency’s proposed LEO constellation.
Tesat-Spacecom’s laser communications terminals passed key ground tests required for deployment on Space Development Agency satellites on 2023-10-26.
Tesat’s terminals will be integrated with Lockheed Martin’s satellites that will be part of the Space Development Agency Transport Layer Tranche 1 satellites scheduled to launch in late 2024.
Lockheed Martin will build the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites.
Each Space Development Agency spacecraft in the mesh network is equipped with multiple laser communications terminals.
Lockheed Martin is also using CACI’s optical terminals for Space Development Agency Tranche 1 satellites.