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Proposals for the SDA Transport Layer Tranche 1 were due on 2023-10-08.
The 18 spacecraft will be integrated with the Space Development Agency’s planned mesh network of 126 optically interconnected data transport satellites.
The Space Development Agency is reviewing bids for 126 satellites that will make up the Transport Layer Tranche 1 projected to launch in 2024.
The Space Development Agency is interested in industry-developed sensors and other technologies that support the Department of Defense strategy to use satellites to track targets on the ground, at sea, and in the air and share that intelligence across military platforms worldwide.
The Space Development Agency issued a draft request for bids on 2021-10-08 for 18 satellites that will carry experimental payloads.
The U.S. Space Development Agency included laser crosslinks in its request for proposals for the Transport Layer Tranche 1 constellation of 126 satellites.
Lockheed Martin is building 10 vehicles for the Space Development Agency’s satellite constellation.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) awarded Space Micro Inc. a contract to deliver ten Ka-band Nanocom Software Defined Radios in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 satellite constellation.
The Space Development Agency plans to conduct random parts testing and non‑destructive testing as part of its processes for Transport Layer Tranche 1 procurement.
Prime contractors selected to build satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 are expected to protect the entire supply chain from cyber intrusions, counterfeiting, and other threats.
SDA initially planned to launch six planes of 24 satellites composed of 21 baseline satellites and three P3 satellites per plane.
The Space Development Agency will procure the 18 P3 satellites through a separate solicitation.
The Space Development Agency revised its request for proposals from 144 satellites to 126 satellites and will procure the remaining 18 satellites at a later time.
L3Harris received the SDA tracking layer prototype award in 2020 to develop and integrate an end-to-end satellite system under a $193,000,000 firm fixed-price contract.
On 2021-09-20, the Space Development Agency approved L3Harris Technologies’ proposed design for a missile-tracking satellite.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch the first batch of missile-tracking satellites in 2023.
The missile-tracking satellites selected by the Space Development Agency will be part of a larger constellation of space-based infrared sensors to detect and track hypersonic and ballistic missiles from low Earth orbit.
Lockheed Martin won a $188,000,000 contract from the Space Development Agency in 2020 following demonstration of technologies validated by the Pony Express experiment.
L3Harris is producing four missile-tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency under a $193,500,000 contract won in October.
The Space Development Agency awarded L3Harris a tracking layer prototype program contract to develop and integrate an end-to-end satellite system in October 2020.