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The Transport Layer constellation is also being built by the Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency is working with the Missile Defense Agency on infrared sensor technology for detection of missile threats in low Earth orbit.
The Space Development Agency planned to request funding for Tracking Layer Tranche 1 in fiscal year 2023.
The Senate Appropriations Committee criticized MDA’s plan to launch HBTSS payloads on separate satellites instead of hosting them aboard SDA’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites.
The Space Development Agency is ramping up procurement of satellites for its low Earth orbit Transport Layer Tranche 1 constellation, which is intended to provide communications services to the military.
The Department of Defense requested $936,700,000 in 2022 for the Space Development Agency, about a $600,000,000 increase from 2021.
The Space Development Agency's increased 2022 budget trajectory would cause significant slips in Tranche 1 and could impact Tranche 0 if funding remains at 2021 levels without anomaly funding.
Space Development Agency Director Derek Tournear keynoted the SpaceNews Awards event and joined a panel of industry leaders and SpaceNews journalists to discuss how 2021’s influx of space capital is creating new opportunities and challenges.
The Space Development Agency is working with the Missile Defense Agency to develop sensor satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 20 satellites and procure an additional 126 over the coming year.
The Space Development Agency is working with Congress and the Department of Defense comptroller to explore options, including anomaly funding, to allow Tranche 0 launches and Tranche 1 procurements to proceed under an extended continuing resolution.
The Space Development Agency is building a network of interconnected commercial satellites in low Earth orbit to transmit data and provide communications, navigation, and other services.
Quilty Analytics released a report summarizing input from the Space Development Agency (SDA) and other industry executives regarding the SDA's race to implement a proliferated LEO (PLEO) space architecture.
Space Micro was awarded a contract to deliver ten Nanocom Software Defined Radios via Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 satellite constellation.
The Space Development Agency is leading a Department of Defense effort to deploy its own low Earth orbit constellation.
Space Micro announced a contract in October to deliver ten Nanocom software-defined radios to Lockheed Martin for inclusion in the satellites Lockheed Martin is building for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0 constellation.
The U.S. Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer is a mesh network of communications satellites in low Earth orbit projected to start launching in 2022.
The U.S. Space Development Agency plans to pursue similar connectivity deals with other commercial imagery suppliers offering various types of imagery.
Imagery providers doing business with the U.S. Space Development Agency must install SDA-approved optical inter-satellite links on their satellites.
Capella ordered up to 20 CONDOR Mk3 optical communications terminals from Mynaric for its synthetic aperture radar satellites to relay data through the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 constellation.