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York Space Systems, based in Denver, Colorado, won a $94,000,000 contract in August 2020 to build 10 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 10 satellites in March and the remaining 18 satellites in June.
The launch rescheduled for March includes eight York Space satellites and two of four SpaceX-Leidos missile-tracking satellites being built for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0.
The first launch of the Space Development Agency’s constellation planned for mid-December will slip to March 2023 due to an anomaly in York Space Systems’ satellites that was identified during tests.
The Space Development Agency is establishing a large constellation of missile-tracking and data-relay satellites in low Earth orbit.
The Space Development Agency is procuring hundreds of satellites under fixed-price contracts.
SpaceX participated in the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency missile-tracking and missile-detection constellation and partnered with Leidos to develop four classified infrared sensor satellites scheduled to launch before the end of the year.
Rocket Lab will supply more than 80 Lightband Separation Systems to prime contractor Lockheed Martin and another undisclosed customer that are manufacturing satellites for the SDA’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer is part of the National Defense Space Architecture and will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms.
Rocket Lab USA was awarded two contracts worth a total of $14,000,000 to provide satellite separation systems for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Lockheed Martin selected Terran Orbital as its satellite bus supplier for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer.
Terran Orbital expects to deliver the 10 Tranche 0 buses to Lockheed Martin by the end of the year to meet the Space Development Agency’s target schedule to launch all 10 satellites in March.
All 42 Space Development Agency Tranche 1 satellites will include Link 16 and RF communications plus four optical terminals per satellite.
Lockheed Martin won a $187,500,000 contract in 2020 to produce 10 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Lockheed Martin won a $700,000,000 contract earlier 2022 to produce 42 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1.
Rocket Lab has two contracts totaling $14,000,000 to provide satellite separation systems for companies building the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites.
The Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer consists of a mesh network of 126 optically-interconnected space vehicles.
Rocket Lab will supply more than 80 Lightband Separation Systems to prime contractor Lockheed Martin and another undisclosed customer for the SDA’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
A second supply chain concern for the Space Development Agency is insufficient resiliency leading to dependence on a single supplier, which contributed to delays in the Tranche 0 satellites.
On 2022-11-10, the Space Development Agency planned to launch the first satellites of a planned mesh network of sensors and communications nodes in low Earth orbit the following month.