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The SDA is open to all satellite operators and other participants.
The SDA's membership comprises many of the world’s major satellite communications companies as well as key scientific, remote sensing, and environmental satellite system operators.
Terran Orbital is working on 30 programs and over 375 satellites, including initial constellation orders for the Space Development Agency, Rivada, and a new constellation customer announced on 2023-05-15.
Terran Orbital is currently working on 30 programs and over 375 satellites, including initial constellation orders for the Space Development Agency and Rivada and a new constellation customer announced on 2023-05-15.
Momentus was selected for funding from the Space Development Agency via a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 award that SDA is collaborating to complete with the Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Directorate AFWERX.
Momentus was selected for funding from the Space Development Agency for a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 award in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory Technology Directorate AFWERX.
A 2023-05-11 draft solicitation from the Space Development Agency lays out requirements for 100 Alpha satellites that will be part of Transport Layer Tranche 2.
Transport Layer Tranche 2 includes 72 Beta satellites for which the Space Development Agency has already requested bids.
The Space Development Agency already acquired satellites for Tranche 0 and Tranche 1 of both the Transport Layer and the Tracking Layer.
Transport Layer Tranche 2 will be the Space Development Agency’s largest procurement to date.
The Space Development Agency is planning a procurement of 100 Alpha satellites to continue building a military constellation in low Earth orbit.
Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Tranche 1 Tracking Layer is the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
Vireo is a Ka-band, multi-beam communications system designed to operate in the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
CesiumAstro was selected by Raytheon Technologies to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array RF communications payload for integration into seven space vehicles supporting the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Maxar unsuccessfully bid in 2021 as a prime contractor for an SDA satellite contract and filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office that led SDA to change its contracting approach to Other Transaction Authority.
L3Harris won a $700,000,000 contract from the Space Development Agency in July to produce 14 satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 1 plus two additional satellites for a missile-tracking demonstration.
Raytheon’s space vehicles are part of SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, SDA’s first operationally capable set of LEO infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
Maxar Technologies will deliver in early 2024 the first of 16 satellite buses ordered by L3Harris for a U.S. Space Development Agency low Earth orbit military constellation.
Maxar is offering the small satellite bus to other defense contractors competing for Space Development Agency satellite contracts.