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The Space Development Agency requires satellite vendors to have interoperable optical inter-satellite links.
Technology developed in the Blackjack program is supporting the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency’s effort to build a large network of communications and missile-warning satellites in low Earth orbit.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its first constellation of 28 communications and missile-detection satellites in low Earth orbit next year.
The Space Development Agency expects to make multiple awards from the Tranche 1 Transport Layer solicitation.
L3Harris and SpaceX won contracts to provide four satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer for missile detection and tracking.
The Defense Department’s Space Development Agency released a request for proposals on 2021-08-30 to procure satellite manufacturers to build as many as 144 satellites.
The satellites will constitute the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 mesh network of communications satellites in low Earth orbit projected to start launching in late 2024.
Proposals for Transport Layer Tranche 1 are due in October and the Space Development Agency expects to award contracts in January.
Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems were selected in 2023 to provide 10 satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
The Space Development Agency is seeking responses to a Request for Proposal to help build the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency expects to issue contracts early 2022 for Tranche 1, a constellation comprising a Transport Layer of data-relay satellites and a Tracking Layer of sensor satellites to detect and track missiles.
Mynaric anticipates the CONDOR Mk3 will comply with standards for up to 150 operational satellites that the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency plans to order early next year.
The Space Development Agency is about to issue a solicitation for 144 smallsats that it aims to launch in 2024.
The Space Development Agency is developing a constellation of satellites with wide-field-of-view sensors designed to work together in a network to detect and track targets.
The Space Development Agency has a $900,000,000 budget.
L3Harris won a $193,500,000 contract from SDA in October to produce four missile-tracking satellites with wide-field-of-view sensors.
The Space Development Agency plans a projected next batch of 150 satellites to launch in 2024.
SpaceX is producing four wide-field-of-view missile-tracking satellites for SDA under a $149,000,000 contract awarded in October.
The Space Development Agency advocates that stable funding is key to maintaining schedules and delivering planned capabilities.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its first 28 satellites to low Earth orbit in fall 2022, consisting of 20 satellites for a mesh communications network called the Transport Layer and eight missile-detecting sensor satellites for the Tracking Layer.