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The Space Development Agency is working with other Department of Defense agencies to develop encryption and other security devices for use on satellites.
SDA expects its Tranche 1 satellites to cost less than the average $14,100,000 per satellite that it paid for Tranche 0 satellites.
SDA will operate Tranche 1 mission operations centers at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
The Space Development Agency plans to start launching satellites in 2022 with a goal of having hundreds in orbit by 2024 for communications and missile detection.
The Space Development Agency will work with vendors to validate the provenance of components to reduce the risk of supply chain intrusion.
Lockheed Martin is developing and building 10 space vehicles over the next two years for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Satellites for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 must have optical inter-satellite links and the ability to establish and maintain at least three optical links concurrently, with an objective of five or more.
The Space Development Agency is seeking industry feedback on the design and development of mission-capable space vehicles for the National Defense Space Architecture’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency expects the Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation to feature six near-polar circular planes.
The Space Development Agency plans to award multiple contracts for the Tranche 1 procurement to create an open marketplace where vendors can compete for orders.
The Space Development Agency is seeking industry feedback on industry’s ability to support a homogeneous constellation design to provide the full suite of Tranche 1 Transport Layer capabilities.
The Space Development Agency intends to buy 150 satellites to be launched in late 2024.
The Space Development Agency expects the Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation to include tens of satellites at 1,0 m altitude in each plane.
The Space Development Agency expects the Tranche 1 constellation to be deployed in six near-polar circular orbital planes with tens of satellites at approximately 1,0 m altitude in each plane.
The Space Development Agency has acquired 28 satellites for its Tranche 0 constellation.
The Space Development Agency is seeking a homogeneous constellation design with all space vehicles equipped with baseline mission payloads.
Per the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, the Space Development Agency will transfer from the Department of Defense to the U.S. Space Force on 2022-10-01, as a unit aligning directly to the Chief of Space Operations.
Upon transfer to the U.S. Space Force, the Space Development Agency will receive acquisition authorities from the Service Acquisition Executive and will receive select administrative and integration support from Space Systems Command.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office at Kirtland Air Force Base and the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency will not be part of Space Systems Command but will work closely with the new command.
The Space Development Agency was established in 2019 and plans to deploy a network of low-orbiting satellites by 2022 using commercial products from nontraditional suppliers.