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The Space Development Agency is buying eight missile-warning satellites at about $43,000,000 per unit.
The Space Development Agency awarded $149,000,000 to SpaceX to build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The Space Development Agency awarded $193,500,000 to L3Harris to build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
The contracts announced 2020-10-05 are for the first eight satellites of the constellation the Space Development Agency is calling Tracking Layer Tranche 0.
The Space Force intends for the Space Systems Command to work together with existing organizations including the Space and Missile Systems Center, the Space Development Agency, and the Space Rapid Capabilities Office.
The Department of the Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, the Space Development Agency, and others are planning to spend tens of billions of dollars pursuing various potential satellite constellations with a variety of sensor types, constellation sizes, and orbits ranging from proliferated low Earth to geosynchronous.
The Space Development Agency plans to have the first 20 Transport Layer satellites in orbit within two years at a price of about $15,000,000 per satellite.
Telesat is a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency program and will provide technical advice to Lockheed Martin on the use of optical crosslinks to connect satellites on orbit.
The Transport Layer is planned to eventually grow to hundreds of satellites and the Space Development Agency will develop additional layers for functions such as missile defense and targeting.
The Space Development Agency selected two contractors on 2020-08-31 to build the first batch of satellites for Transport Layer Tranche 0 four months after posting the final solicitation for bids.
Lockheed Martin is one of the two companies selected to build 10 satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
The Space Development Agency is a U.S. Department of Defense agency charged with transforming the military’s approach to developing and acquiring space systems.
The U.S. Space Development Agency has contracts with York Space Systems and Lockheed Martin for each company to build 10 low-Earth-orbit communications satellites equipped with optical intersatellite links.
The Space Development Agency plans to deploy hundreds more Transport Layer satellites beyond the initial 20.
The Space Development Agency is buying 20 satellites to launch in 2022 for Transport Layer Tranche 0.
York Space Systems was selected by the Space Development Agency to produce 10 satellites for the Transport Layer Tranche 0 mesh network in low Earth orbit.
Lockheed Martin won a $187,500,000 contract from the Space Development Agency for Transport Layer Tranche 0 satellites.
The Space Development Agency selected Lockheed Martin for the Transport Layer contract because the agency assessed that Lockheed Martin provided higher overall value despite higher cost.
The Lockheed Martin satellites for SDA will weigh about 150 to 200 kg each and will use Tyvak’s Mavericks platform.
Lockheed Martin will build 10 satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency using small buses from Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.