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CesiumAstro was selected by Raytheon Technologies to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array (AESA) RF communications payload for integration into seven space vehicles supporting the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
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.
Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit 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.
The U.S. Space Development Agency constellation includes a Transport Layer for communications and a Tracking Layer for missile detection.
Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
Northrop Grumman selected Mynaric’s CONDOR terminals for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layers.
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.
Mynaric’s CONDOR Mk3 optical communications terminal offers full compatibility with the Space Development Agency’s interoperability standard.
The Space Development Agency has relied on commercial products to procure Transport Layer satellites at about $15,000,000 each.
The Space Development Agency is building a mesh network of military satellites in low Earth orbit that includes a Transport Layer of communications satellites and a Tracking Layer of missile-detection satellites.
Procurement of the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 2 is expected in 2024, and the agency is soliciting industry comments in advance of that procurement.
LeoStella is in discussions with multiple defense contractors about using the company’s new satellite bus in future bids for Space Development Agency contracts.
CONDOR Mk3 was previously selected by Northrop Grumman for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layers.
There is an open solicitation for the first 72 communications satellites of the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 2.
CONDOR Mk3 offers full compatibility with the Space Development Agency’s interoperability standard.
Northrop Grumman won a competition in July 2024 to build and deploy a proliferated LEO constellation of 14 satellites with infrared sensors for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
SDA’s data-relay satellites equipped with Link 16 communications payloads will be able to communicate with platforms in the air, ground, and sea via the Link 16 network.
The XVI experiment will support the Space Development Agency’s low Earth constellation, which is deploying data transport satellites equipped with Link 16 communications payloads.
The Space Development Agency ordered 126 satellites for Transport Layer Tranche 1 and 35 satellites for Tracking Layer Tranche 1.