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The Space Development Agency is building a network of surveillance sensor satellites called the Tracking Layer to detect and track missiles that could be aimed at U.S. forces.
The Space Development Agency invested about $21,000,000 in the experiments flying on the Transporter-2 launch.
SDA’s fifth payload is hosted on a commercial satellite built by Loft Orbital called YAM-3.
The Space Development Agency is building a network of data-relay satellites in low Earth orbit called the Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency seeks to work with commercial imaging satellite operators to enable direct data transfers to U.S. government satellites in orbit.
These experiments are SDA’s first in-space experiments since the agency was established in 2019.
The Space Development Agency is interested in working with operators of electro-optical, radar imaging, and other observation satellites to add optical crosslinks that can interface with the Transport Layer.
General Atomics won a $6 million grant to conduct a space-to-air optical communication experiment with the U.S. Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency is developing a Tracking Layer of sensor satellites to detect and track missiles.
The Space Development Agency is developing a Transport Layer of data-relay satellites.
Entities such as the U.S. Space Development Agency and NASA are planning to utilize optical SATCOM technology.
Capella Space received a $3,000,000 research contract in support of the Space Development Agency’s National Defense Space Architecture.
Capella Space received a $3,000,000 research contract from the Space Development Agency on 2021-06-14.
The Space Development Agency is developing a Transport Layer of data-relay satellites and a Tracking Layer of sensor satellites to detect and track missiles.
Mynaric achieved the industry’s first over-the-air transmission using an OISL terminal communicating with an independently built testbed that are both compliant with the SDA OISL Standard.
The $15,300,000,000 in proposed 2022 space technology investments includes $900,000,000 for Space Development Agency unclassified RDT&E and procurement.
Mynaric successfully demonstrated its implementation of the Space Development Agency (SDA) Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) Standard in late March 2025.
The Space Development Agency procured its first satellites for the National Defense Space Architecture program in 2024.
The Space Development Agency is seeking industry feedback on its approach to procure the next tranche of up to 150 satellites, each equipped with optical links.
The LINCS effort, in partnership with SDA, is one of the first Department of Defense contracted efforts to develop and deploy a 1550 nm Optical Communication Terminal to test increased speed, distance, and variability of communication in space.