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The Tranche 1 Tracking Layer proposals were received and evaluated under Other Transaction Authorities solicitation SDA-PS-22-02.
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.
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.
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 SSC Industry Day will include a full agenda of government presentations from various agencies involved in SDA.
Space Systems Command (SSC) will host an Industry Day on July 28th in Colorado Springs to discuss Space Domain Awareness (SDA) missions.
The Space Development Agency selected Northrop Grumman in February to develop and field a portion of its Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) constellation.
Northrop Grumman plans to use Mynaric’s laser communications technology for intersatellite links on spacecraft it is building for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 communications network.
Northrop Grumman selected Airbus as its satellite bus supplier for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit constellation on 2022-07-05.
The U.S. Space Development Agency plans to launch Tranche 1 satellites in late 2024.
Northrop Grumman won a $692,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Development Agency in February to produce 42 satellites projected to launch in 2024.
Airbus bid in 2020 as a prime contractor to supply SDA missile-tracking satellites but lost that prime contract to L3Harris and SpaceX.
The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris in December 2020 to build and launch four space vehicles to demonstrate the capability to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The Space Development Agency is deploying a large low Earth orbit constellation of missile-tracking and communications satellites to provide a proliferated network.
The Space Development Agency (SDA) is budgeting $2,700,000,000 over five years for the Transport Layer, a mesh network expected to have hundreds of small satellites.
The Space Force requested $1,000,000,000 in fiscal year 2023 to start a Resilient Missile Warning-Missile Tracking program that combines the Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit missile-tracking satellites with a Space Force procurement of missile-tracking satellites in medium Earth orbit.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee added approximately $160,000,000 to the NSSL procurement budget to fund two additional Space Development Agency launches.
The president’s proposed budget included $1,300,000,000 for three national security space launch missions and three launches of Space Development Agency satellites to low Earth orbit.
The ground demonstration performed for Space Development Agency leadership validated compatibility between commercially developed laser communications and secure U.S. government encryption hardware.
The Space Development Agency is accelerating deployment of a $2,500,000,000 missile-tracking constellation originally planned to start launching in 2026 toward a 2025 timeline.