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The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency is especially interested in lightweight laser communications terminals for the fleet of LEO satellites it plans to deploy over the next few years.
DARPA and the Space Development Agency intended to launch two optical inter-satellite link cubesats on Transporter-1 but the satellites were accidentally damaged at the payload processing facility before launch.
The Space Development Agency plans to buy up to 150 additional satellites to be launched in late 2024.
The 2021-01-25 broad area announcement asks companies to submit pitches for space technology projects that the SDA might fund if they meet specific needs.
The 2021-01-25 solicitation indicates the SDA is open to funding research-and-development projects for technologies not available in the open market.
The Space Development Agency accepted submissions in response to the 2021-01-25 solicitation until 2022-01-24.
The Space Development Agency has acquired 28 satellites planned to launch in 2022, including 20 Transport Layer data-relay satellites and eight missile-warning Tracking Layer satellites.
The HBTSS satellites will be part of a larger missile warning network that also includes wide-field-of-view missile tracking satellites to be acquired by the Space Development Agency.
L3Harris and SpaceX are each building four satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer.
The Missile Defense Agency and the Space Development Agency are expected to procure hundreds more satellites to eventually provide global coverage.
The Space Development Agency is preparing to launch its first 28 satellites in 2022.
The Space Development Agency intends to create a market for prospective performers so they can build capabilities and bid on future projects.
The Space Development Agency concluded that the SpaceX and L3Harris Technologies proposals offered the best value to the government.
The Space Development Agency reevaluated contractor bids for Tracking Layer Tranche 0 and confirmed the original October selection decision.
The Space Development Agency is planning to launch Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites in late 2022.
The Space Development Agency awarded L3Harris Technologies a $193,500,000 contract to build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The Space Development Agency implemented a corrective action plan for the Tracking Layer Tranche 0 competition after the initial awards received protests.
The Space Development Agency awarded SpaceX a $149,000,000 contract to build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The two damaged satellites are part of the Blackjack program, a constellation effort led by DARPA, the Space Development Agency, and the Air Force Research Laboratory to deploy small satellites in low Earth orbit.
The U.S. Space Development Agency awarded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) a nearly $155,000,000 contract for launch services from Vandenberg Air Force Base for the Agency’s Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer space vehicles.