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Sierra Space has completed satellite structures for the first nine of 18 satellites for the Space Development Agency.
SDA plans to launch Tranche 1 satellites once per month until the constellation is complete.
The SDA's Tranche 1 Transport Layer aims to deploy a total of 126 orbitals in low-Earth orbit.
Terran Orbital has completed delivery of 42 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1, Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture aims to deploy a Tracking Layer of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit to enhance missile detection and tracking capabilities.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch 160 satellites for Tranche 1 of the PWSA starting in spring 2025.
York Space Systems developed, delivered, and successfully launched nine satellites for Tranche 0 of the Space Development Agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
On 2024-08-15, York Space Systems and the Space Development Agency achieved the first successful Link 16 network entry from Tranche 0 satellites in Low Earth Orbit to a U.S. Navy ship in international waters.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch the FOO Fighter satellites in the first quarter of fiscal year 2027.
Raytheon won a contract as a prime contractor to produce seven Tranche 1 satellites for the Space Development Agency but later decided it could not meet the price targets and de-scoped much of the work.
The Tracking Layer Tranche 1 is the first deployment of a multi-phase plan to develop a global missile warning and tracking system by the Space Development Agency.
Redwire recently opened a facility in Longmont, Colorado to add capacity to design Link 16 antennas for the Space Development Agency’s network of low Earth orbit satellites.
Five missile tracking satellites designed and built by L3Harris Technologies successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida as part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program and the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 Tracking Layer program.
Northrop Grumman won a contract in 2022 to provide some satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
The Space Development Agency plans to launch the four delayed L3Harris missile-tracking satellites early in 2024.
Northrop Grumman has won orders from the Space Development Agency for 132 satellites for the Transport and the Tracking Layer to date.
The Space Development Agency plans to deploy a mesh network of interconnected satellites that includes a Transport Layer to transmit data collected by a Tracking Layer of missile-detection sensor satellites.
Lockheed Martin has won orders for 88 satellites from the Space Development Agency, including portions of the Transport Layer Tranche 0 and Tranche 1 constellations.
York Space has 124 satellites ordered to date, making the Colorado-based manufacturer currently the Space Development Agency’s largest supplier of satellites.
The Space Development Agency plans to deploy a mesh network of interconnected satellites.