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The Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency is seeking ways to rapidly acquire Earth observation data.
The Space Development Agency is soliciting proposals for the ground architecture to support Transport Layer Tranche 1, including constellation management, mission management, and network management.
The Space Development Agency intends to buy 28 missile-tracking satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems won Space Development Agency contracts in 2020 to produce 10 satellites apiece for SDA’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
A data processor launched to orbit by the Space Development Agency performed an early demonstration of autonomous data fusion in space.
The Space Development Agency took over the experiment originally developed for DARPA and renamed it POET.
TESAT’s ConLCT80 Optical Communication Terminal is compliant with the Space Development Agency OCT standard V3.0 and can be delivered off the shelf.
TESAT is providing OCTs for four different U.S. spacecraft primes in support of the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer and Tracking Layer.
The Space Development Agency plans to work with multiple laser communications vendors to deploy a large constellation of data-relay satellites in low Earth orbit.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems launched the Laser Interconnect and Networking Communications System (LINCS) experiment for the Space Development Agency on 2022-06-30.
Before acquiring SA Photonics, CACI focused on higher-end laser communications terminals designed for higher orbits and tougher radiation environments and was developing a lower-price-point version aimed at the SDA market.
The Space Development Agency is selecting as many as three prime contractors to build 144 satellites for the Transport Layer Tranche 1.
Each satellite in the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 is expected to carry between three and five optical terminals.
CACI has been in active discussions with spacecraft manufacturers that are planning to build satellites for the Space Development Agency.
Space C2 is decommissioning JMS SP-9 as part of modernizing Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities for the United States.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its first batch of low Earth orbit satellites in 2022.
The Space Development Agency plans a military megaconstellation that could number close to 1,000 spacecraft by 2026.
The Space Development Agency plans bulk orders of approximately 150 satellites every two years to maintain a domestic supplier base.
The Space Development Agency will merge with the U.S. Space Force later in 2022.
The Space Development Agency is developing a low Earth orbit data transport layer intended to be part of the larger Department of Defense and possibly commercial satellite architecture.