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The Space Development Agency awarded the contract for the NExT program on 2022-10-10.
Microsoft is supplying Azure Orbital Ground Station and Azure Government air-gapped clouds for NExT to provide a secure cloud environment for SDA mission work.
York Space Systems established first contact with all eight York satellites delivered to orbit as part of the Space Development Agency's Tranche 0 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
The Space Development Agency awarded York Space Systems a $94,000,000 contract in August 2020 to develop 10 Tranche 0 satellites.
York Space Systems is developing an additional 42 satellites in support of the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture expected to launch in late 2024.
The Space Development Agency published a draft solicitation for Tranche 2 on 2023-03-01 and intends Tranche 2 launches to begin in 2026.
The successful Tranche 0 launch occurred 27 months after the Space Development Agency ordered the satellites.
The Space Development Agency is preparing to launch 18 more Tranche 0 satellites in June.
The Space Development Agency launched its first 10 satellites on 2023-04-02.
The Space Development Agency procures systems under fixed-price contracts.
The Pentagon allocated $700,000,000 in 2023 and $500,000,000 in 2024 to fund a total of 12 Space Development Agency launches.
Space Development Agency established communication with all 10 satellites three days after their 2023-04-02 launch.
Starting in 2024-09-01, the Space Development Agency plans one launch per month for the next year.
The Space Development Agency launched the first 10 Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer satellites of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
The Tranche 0 launch deployed the first 10 of the planned 28 SDA Tranche 0 satellites.
The Space Development Agency plans to field Tranche 1, the first operational generation of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, beginning in late 2024.
SpaceX launched the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket on 2023-04-02 at 7:29 a.m. PT (14:29 UTC).
Tranche 1 will be operated by Space Development Agency space operations centers based heavily on commercial space operations models.
SDA awarded firm-fixed-price contracts for Tranche 0 satellites that resulted in a cost of approximately $15,000,000 per Transport satellite.
The Space Development Agency uses an acquisition strategy focused on designing and rapidly deploying a threat-driven resilient constellation of small satellites in low Earth orbit to enable faster and cheaper capability delivery.