All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
The Space Development Agency aims to procure Transport Layer satellites at a price point of about $15,000,000 per unit.
Scientific Systems demonstrated integration and deployment of new containerized software for the Space Development Agency’s POET program using its Innoflight processor hosted on Loft Orbital’s YAM-3 satellite.
The Space Development Agency planned to acquire 44 Gamma satellites for Transport Layer Tranche 2 but is revising those plans.
Scientific Systems developed a payload for a Space Development Agency demonstration of autonomous satellite operations that launched in 2021 on a Loft Orbital satellite.
BlackSky Technology won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX Direct to Phase 2 contract funded by the Space Development Agency to build an automated target recognition service.
BlackSky Technology Inc. won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX Direct to Phase 2 contract funded by the Space Development Agency to build an automated target recognition service.
Raytheon is using Blue Canyon Technologies’ Saturn buses to build seven satellites for the Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency is a U.S. Space Force organization that uses unconventional procurement methods to acquire satellites and build a space network.
The Space Development Agency achieved two successful satellite launches in 2023.
General Atomics designed the Manhattan optical terminals to provide communications in degraded environments and to establish and maintain links that meet Space Development Agency standards.
Under a 2021 Space Development Agency contract, General Atomics launched a two-cubesat experiment to demonstrate optical communications in space.
The Space Development Agency plans to deploy a mesh network of interconnected satellites.
On 2023-09-27, the Space Development Agency awarded a $14,200,000 contract to General Atomics to produce two optical communications terminals hosted on two small satellites for an in-space demonstration.
Mynaric’s laser communications terminals passed key ground tests required for deployment on Space Development Agency satellites on 2023-09-28.
Interoperability tests for Mynaric’s terminals took place at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, which was selected by the Space Development Agency to oversee optical communications testing.
Mynaric will supply CONDOR Mk3 terminals to Northrop Grumman’s satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layer programs.
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.
The Falcon 9 first stage that supported the 2023-09-25 mission previously launched the SDA-0A mission.
The first stage booster supporting the 2023-09-25 mission previously launched SDA-0A and four Starlink missions.
Boeing’s subsidiary Millennium Space Systems focuses on small satellites and is expected to continue competing for military business including the Space Development Agency’s planned mesh network.