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The Space Development Agency has ordered 52 satellites from Lockheed Martin.
The Space Development Agency is ordering satellites from multiple vendors and requiring manufacturers to make their spacecraft interoperable via optical links that adhere to common standards.
The Space Development Agency was established in 2019.
The Space Development Agency set target prices of $45,000,000 to $50,000,000 for each Tracking Layer satellite.
The Space Development Agency has ordered 62 satellites from York Space Systems.
The Space Development Agency has ordered seven satellites from Raytheon Technologies.
The Space Development Agency deploys its constellation in tranches of satellites every two years to implement a spiral development process.
The Space Development Agency estimates achieving global coverage starting in 2026 when Tranche 2 satellites are in orbit.
The Space Development Agency’s budget grew from $125,000,000 in its first year to about $4,600,000,000 in the Pentagon’s 2024 funding request.
The Space Development Agency has ordered 10 satellites from Ball Aerospace.
The Space Development Agency has ordered four satellites from SpaceX.
The Space Development Agency has ordered 20 satellites from L3Harris Technologies.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Space Development Agency’s first 10 Tranche 0 satellites on 2023-04-02.
The Space Development Agency plans to award Transport Layer Tranche 2 contracts later in 2023 and Tracking Layer Tranche 2 contracts in 2024.
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris are building Space Development Agency satellites using commercial buses from Terran Orbital, Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, and Maxar Technologies, respectively.
The Space Development Agency has ordered 56 satellites from Northrop Grumman.
The Space Development Agency expects the Tracking Layer to have enough satellites to provide missile warning and missile tracking coverage and to provide updates and cues for radar and other weapons systems.
The Space Development Agency issued a draft solicitation for 54 Tracking Layer Tranche 2 satellites with comments due 2023-07-20.
The Space Development Agency is building a low-Earth-orbit constellation that relies on a broad base of suppliers for commercially produced small satellites and laser communications terminals.
The Space Development Agency set a target price of at most $15,000,000 per Transport Layer satellite.