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Rocket Lab’s broader Space Development Agency portfolio totaled $1.3 billion and included an $816 million Tracking Layer award announced in December 2025.
Northrop Grumman is rapidly delivering more satellites to the SDA to meet critical mission needs.
Mynaric supplied CONDOR Mk3 optical terminals for Rocket Lab’s $515 million Space Development Agency Transport Layer contract.
CesiumAstro is a supplier to Rocket Lab for its Space Development Agency contract.
CesiumAstro is a critical sub-prime supplier for the Space Development Agency.
The acquisition enhances Intuitive Machines' ability to service future Golden Dome, Space Development Agency layered architecture, and NASA's Artemis and Lunar Terrain Vehicle initiatives.
The SDA's multi-tranche procurement program has generated over $3 billion in contract awards.
York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman emerged as primary competitors for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer constellation contracts.
The Space Development Agency's Transport Layer contracts are divided into Tranche 0, Tranche 1, and Tranche 2.
The initial per-satellite cost baseline established by the SDA for Tranche 0 in 2020 was approximately $15 million.
Diffraqtion plans to initiate ground-based SDA operations in 2027 and has its first orbital launch scheduled for 2028.
York Space Systems is a primary contractor for the Space Development Agency (SDA) and its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Intuitive Machines aims to compete for programs like Golden Dome, Space Development Agency awards, and NASA lunar programs.
Lanteris builds large Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites, the WorldView Legion-class Lanteris 500, and Space Development Agency (SDA)-class Lanteris 300.
The Space Development Agency announced approximately $3.5 billion in awards in December 2025 for 72 Tracking Layer satellites.
The nine launches of SDA and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellites are scheduled to start in late 2025 and end in fiscal 2028.
SpaceX launched a batch of Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites for the Space Development Agency (SDA) on October 15, 2025.
SDA-3 calls for SpaceX to launch 18 Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellites by Lockheed Martin.
Under the SDA-2 missions, SpaceX is to launch 18 of SDA’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellites by L3Harris Technologies and eight Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter satellites by Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems.
SSC awarded the SDA-2 missions to SpaceX for launches projected to begin in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026.