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The Space Development Agency (SDA) is focused on developing and delivering capabilities for warfighters.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 30 satellites in 2022, comprising 20 Transport Layer data-relay satellites, eight missile-warning Tracking Layer satellites, and two sensor satellites from the Missile Defense Agency.
The Space Development Agency was established in March 2019.
SDA’s primary product is Beyond-Line-Of-Sight (BLOS) targeting for time-sensitive mobile targets, including mobile missile launchers and ships.
SDA is working with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to build a constellation for detecting and tracking advanced missile threats.
The Space Development Agency plans a future field office at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota.
SDA has awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and YORK Space Systems for the construction of Transport satellites.
The SDA is focused on high-density, low-cost satellite proliferation to provide resilience and timely access to capabilities.
The National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) serves as the backbone for SDA’s layered capabilities delivery.
The Space Development Agency and the Missile Defense Agency plan to launch a Prototype Infrared Payload made by Northrop Grumman as a medium field-of-view multispectral sensor.
SDA plans to develop and field new products every two years through a spiral development approach.
The SDA is structured to operate similarly to a commercial entity within the Defense Department.
Lockheed Martin is one of the companies selected to provide satellites to the Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency is building a mesh network in low Earth orbit known as the Transport Layer.
Telesat teamed with Lockheed Martin to study interoperability between Telesat’s LEO constellation and satellites Lockheed Martin is building for the Space Development Agency.
DARPA and the Space Development Agency are building mesh networks in low-Earth orbit and have interest in optical inter-satellite link capabilities.
The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris in December 2020 to build and launch four space vehicles to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles for launch in 2022.
The Space Development Agency plans to procure hundreds of satellites equipped with laser communications terminals.
All satellites procured by the Space Development Agency must be interoperable and optical links are critical to achieving that interoperability.
York Space Systems won a Space Development Agency contract in August 2020 for 10 satellites scheduled for launch in 2022 to provide communications services.