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The Space Development Agency significantly prefers comprehensive solutions that include open architectures, meaning satellite buses that support multiple payloads and software applications and leverage commoditized satellite technologies.
The Space Development Agency is preparing a procurement of up to 150 satellites to be launched in late 2024.
Responses to the Space Development Agency request for information on Tranche 1 are due 2020-11-13.
Congress requires the Defense Department’s Space Development Agency to move under the Space Force by October 2022.
SpaceX won a $149,000,000 contract from the Defense Department’s Space Development Agency to build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Lockheed Martin won a Space Development Agency contract to provide 10 satellites that will be part of a low-orbit constellation designed to transmit 0.005 kg-speed capacity and low-latency signals between domains.
The Space Development Agency's Transport Layer mesh network is an element envisioned as part of a future 0.005 kg.mil architecture.
The SDA satellites will be delivered by September 2022 and will have a wide field of view overhead persistent infrared sensor capable of detecting and tracking advanced missile threats from low Earth orbit.
Telesat is providing technical advice on optical links to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency calls the constellation Tracking Layer Tranche 0.
Space Development Agency awarded $193,500,000 to L3Harris to build four satellites.
Space Development Agency awarded $149,000,000 to SpaceX to build four satellites.
The Space Development Agency wants all 28 satellites launched within six months starting around September 2022.
The Space Development Agency issued a request for proposals on 2020-10-06 for launch services for the 28 satellites.
The Space Development Agency plans to buy hundreds more satellites in the coming years for its constellations.
L3Harris and SpaceX each received contracts to build four missile-warning satellites for the Space Development Agency.
The Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer spacecraft carry overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) sensors that are the most expensive part of the satellite.
The Space Development Agency is buying 20 communications satellites at about $14,000,000 apiece.
The Space Development Agency is buying eight missile-warning satellites at about $43,000,000 per unit.
All satellites awarded in the SDA data-relay and Tracking Layer contracts must be delivered within two years of their awards.