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The Space Development Agency plans to launch 72 data-transport satellites to orbit in 2026.
SDA preferred to select more vendors for Tranche 2 Beta but had limited options because only experienced Department of Defense contractors understood how to work with the highly complex radios and waveforms required for military tactical communications.
The Space Development Agency is an organization under the U.S. Space Force building the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a mesh network in low Earth orbit that includes a data transport layer and a missile-tracking sensor layer.
LeoStella and Hera Systems submitted a combined manufacturing proposal for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
As of 2023-08-29, the Space Development Agency is pursuing a commercial-like approach that relies on a broad base of suppliers of small satellites and laser communications terminals.
The Space Development Agency plans to start launching 126 Tranche 1 satellites in September 2024.
LeoStella and Hera Systems offer a combined manufacturing proposal for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
Hera Systems and LeoStella plan to jointly manufacture satellite buses for the Space Development Agency and for other government and commercial customers.
Hera Systems and LeoStella are teaming up to compete for a large military contract to be awarded in fall 2024 by the U.S. Space Development Agency.
Hera Systems designed the Leoness satellite bus that Hera Systems and LeoStella offered in their bid submitted to SDA in late July 2024.
The U.S. Space Development Agency is building the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, which includes a Transport Layer of interconnected communications satellites and a Tracking Layer of missile-detection and warning sensor satellites.
Hera Systems and LeoStella are partnering with an undisclosed prime contractor in a bid for the SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer Alpha procurement.
Northrop Grumman is developing 42 transport spacecraft for SDA Tranche 1.
Lockheed Martin opened a 20,000-square-foot small-satellite processing facility on 2023-08-04 where it will build and test its SDA satellite as well as other spacecraft and technology demonstrators.
Lockheed Martin provided 10 spacecraft for SDA Tranche 0, which will launch later 2023.
Lockheed Martin is building 42 transport spacecraft for SDA Tranche 1.
The Space Development Agency awarded prototype agreements totaling $1,500,000,000 to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to build data transport satellites for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
The Space Development Agency expects to launch the 72 transport satellites built by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman in 2026.
Raytheon selected Mynaric for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.
Northrop Grumman selected Mynaric for SDA programs for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer and Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.