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The Space Development Agency is seeking proposals on how to conduct a live demonstration of laser crosslinks between SDA’s Transport Layer satellites and a moving aircraft.
The Space Development Agency set a 2022-09-02 deadline for vendors to submit proposals in response to the 2022-08-04 special notice.
An SDA-funded experiment launched in June 2021 to test optical communications was unsuccessful.
The new SDA solicitation asks vendors to connect one or more of the 20 Tranche 0 Transport Layer satellites with an aircraft chosen by the vendor.
The Space Development Agency is building a large mesh network of small satellites in low Earth orbit for communications and missile defense.
TacSat is based on the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0 design to reduce risk for future SDA tranches while providing flexibility to prototype new payload types.
The defense bill provides $216,000,000 for the Space Development Agency to procure two additional launches to accelerate deployment of low Earth orbit missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
The U.S. Space Development Agency awarded SpaceX a $149,000,000 contract and L3Harris a $193,500,000 contract in October 2020 to each build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Four infrared sensor satellites built by L3Harris for the U.S. Space Development Agency are projected to launch to low Earth orbit in March 2023.
Airbus was awarded a contract to provide 42 satellite buses for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) constellation that Northrop Grumman is developing for the U.S. Space Development Agency.
The Tranche 1 Tracking Layer proposals were received and evaluated under Other Transaction Authorities solicitation SDA-PS-22-02.
The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman on 2022-07-18 to each build 14 missile-tracking satellites for the Tracking Layer.
SDA ordered the first eight Tracking Layer satellites (Tranche 0) in 2020 from L3Harris and SpaceX.
SDA received seven proposals for Tracking Layer Tranche 1 and selected the two winning bids based on schedule, technical merit, and price.
SDA published the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer solicitation on 2022-03-17, two days after the President signed the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill into law.
Northrop Grumman previously won a 42-satellite contract for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 broadband constellation.
Using Other Transaction Authority, SDA completed a competitive source selection and finalized the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer agreements within four months of the published solicitation.
The Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellites will be operated from SDA’s Operations and Integration Centers at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota and Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
The Space Development Agency awarded two prototype agreements with a total potential value of over $1,300,000,000 for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
SDA estimated the total cost of Tracking Layer Tranche 1 at about $2.5 billion, including 28 satellites, four launches, ground integration, and support costs.