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The first launch of the Space Development Agency’s constellation planned for mid-December will slip to March 2023 due to an anomaly in York Space Systems’ satellites that was identified during tests.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 10 satellites in March and the remaining 18 satellites in June.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch the T1DES space vehicles with the Tranche 1 Tracking space vehicles on four launches procured through the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract.
Terran Orbital's near-term focus is to complete 10 satellite buses for Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 0.
The U.S. Space Development Agency plans to launch Tranche 1 satellites in late 2024.
The Space Development Agency plans to increase the total number of projected launches in the coming years as it deploys a large constellation in low Earth orbit, making launch cost an issue for the agency.
York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman won contracts in February from the Space Development Agency to each produce 42 satellites for the Transport Layer Tranche 1.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its first 14 satellites in September 2022.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 20 satellites for the Transport Layer Tranche 0 in fall 2024.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its Transport Layer in batches of 21 satellites.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its Tracking Layer in batches of 14 satellites.
SDA plans to launch Tranche 1 starting in September 2024.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its first batch of low Earth orbit satellites in 2022.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its first batch of Transport Layer satellites this fall and to procure additional satellites.
The Senate Appropriations Committee criticized MDA’s plan to launch HBTSS payloads on separate satellites instead of hosting them aboard SDA’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 20 satellites and procure an additional 126 over the coming year.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch the first batch of missile-tracking satellites in 2023.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch its first constellation of 28 communications and missile-detection satellites in low Earth orbit next year.
The Space Development Agency is about to issue a solicitation for 144 smallsats that it aims to launch in 2024.
SDA plans to launch the eight sensor satellites built by L3Harris and SpaceX in 2023 for a demonstration of its tracking layer.