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The Space Development Agency awarded a firm-fixed-price Other Transaction prototype agreement to Ball Aerospace of Broomfield, Colorado with a total potential value of approximately $176,000,000.
The Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer is a low Earth orbit mesh network of optically interconnected satellites that will send and receive wideband data to and from ground stations and mobile users.
Redwire is under contract to produce 42 Link 16 antennas for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
When the Space Development Agency was established in March 2019, it was placed under the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
Mike Griffin held the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering when the Space Development Agency was established in March 2019.
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman were selected by the U.S. Space Development Agency to each produce 14 missile-tracking satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
Under a $700,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Development Agency, L3Harris will build 14 satellites using a new Maxar bus.
The Space Development Agency recently ordered 28 missile-tracking satellites for about $1,400,000,000.
L3Harris has been building four missile-tracking infrared satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 under a contract awarded in 2020 using Moog buses.
The 14 L3Harris satellites will be part of a missile-detecting and tracking network being developed by the U.S. Space Development Agency.
L3Harris works with multiple satellite bus suppliers and selected Maxar for the Space Development Agency bid following a competitive evaluation.
The Department of Defense created the Space Development Agency in 2019 to field a missile-tracking network using large numbers of smaller, cheaper satellites in lower orbits.
Tesat-Spacecom completed the Preliminary Design Review of its Optical Communication Terminals for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency set a goal to acquire batches of new spacecraft every two years and launch them at frequent intervals.
The Space Development Agency selected the motto 'semper citius' to emphasize delivering good-enough capabilities faster.
Mynaric was selected as the sole laser communication supplier for Northrop Grumman on the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer program.
A DARPA-led study team is working with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Space Development Agency, and other organizations to integrate commercial, government, and military satellite communities.
A common launch integrator would work with the Space Development Agency, satellite manufacturers, and launch providers to facilitate payload integration across multiple launch vehicles.
The House Armed Services Committee raised concerns in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act draft about the NSSL program’s ability to perform SDA rideshare launches on budget and on schedule.
SDA projects that deploying Transport Layer Tranche 1 and Tracking Layer Tranche 1 in 2024 and 2025 will result in at least one launch per month over the course of a year.