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Lockheed Martin was selected to build 42 Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites for the Space Development Agency that SDA plans to launch in late 2024.
Geost won a contract on 2023-09-11 to produce eight payloads for missile-tracking satellites that Northrop Grumman is building for the U.S. Space Development Agency.
Ten Lockheed Martin-built satellites were successfully deployed into low Earth orbit in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 Transport Layer mission.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 72 data-transport satellites to orbit in 2026.
To date Lockheed Martin has won Space Development Agency contracts for 88 satellites and Northrop Grumman has won orders for 92 satellites.
The Space Development Agency set a target price of at most $15,000,000 per Transport Layer satellite.
Lockheed Martin and the Space Development Agency successfully completed the Critical Design Review for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer program.
BMC3 is the on-orbit data processing and computing system for the Transport Layer of communications satellites that the Space Development Agency plans to deploy over the next several years.
Following Tranche 0 deployment, SDA plans to launch dozens more satellites on a monthly cadence starting with Tranche 1 in late 2024.
Transport Layer Tranche 2 will be the Space Development Agency’s largest procurement to date.
Tranche 1 Tracking Layer is the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
Raytheon’s space vehicles are part of SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, SDA’s first operationally capable set of LEO infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
The Space Development Agency plans to field Tranche 1, the first operational generation of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, beginning in late 2024.
Congress added $500,000,000 to the Space Development Agency’s budget for the Tracking Layer, and the agency moved up the first launch of Tranche 1 from 2026 to 2025.
The Space Development Agency identified laser intersatellite links as one of the most critical technologies when it started planning and buying satellites in 2020.
Terran Orbital completed delivery of 10 satellite buses ordered by Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency’s mesh network in low Earth orbit on 2022-12-22.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch hundreds of Transport Layer satellites with optical crosslinks to transmit imagery and data globally.
The Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 satellites slipped from a planned 2022 launch schedule to 2023 with the first launch targeted for March and the second targeted for June.