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The Space Development Agency plans to start deploying the Transport Layer Tranche 1 mesh constellation in 2024.
Optical inter-satellite links are a key technology required for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer communications network.
All feedback on the draft NExT solicitation must be provided via email no later than 2022-06-24 at 12:00pm EST with the subject line “SDA Draft NExT Solicitation Feedback.”
The Space Development Agency plans to solicit solutions for space systems to serve as a Warfighter evaluation platform for experiments of interest to military users.
The Space Development Agency wants the NExT experimental payloads deployed between March 2024 and March 2025 in two orbital planes of four satellites and one orbital plane of two satellites.
T1DES satellites were planned to be integrated with the Space Development Agency’s 126-satellite broadband constellation known as Transport Layer Tranche 1 projected to launch in 2024.
The Space Development Agency still plans to purchase up to 12 T1DES satellites.
The Space Development Agency will proceed with deployment of the Transport Layer and will select a separate contractor to produce 10 satellites that will host government-developed payloads for technology experiments.
The Space Development Agency is seeking to acquire as many as 10 satellites to host military payloads for experiments in low Earth orbit.
The Space Development Agency plans to increase the total number of projected launches in the coming years as it deploys a large constellation in low Earth orbit, making launch cost an issue for the agency.
MDA received a contract from Lockheed Martin for 42 antennas for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
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 was under contract in January 2022 to deliver three L-band Link-16 helical antennas for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Lockheed Martin is one of three companies building satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer constellation.
York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman won contracts in February from the Space Development Agency to each produce 42 satellites for the Transport Layer Tranche 1.
The Space Development Agency Tranche 1 mission is the first of six missions for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
The SDA Tranche 1 mission will be launched onboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the western range into a polar orbit.
General Dynamics Mission Systems (NYSE: GD) and Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) were awarded a $324,516,613 contract by the Space Development Agency to establish the ground Operations and Integration segment for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture.
The $324,516,613 contract awarded by the Space Development Agency includes a base amount of $162,954,122 and $161,562,491 in options.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) received three NSS launch service orders for USSF-124, USSF-62, and one Space Development Agency Tranche 1 mission using the Falcon 9 launch vehicle.