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The first batch of DARPA’s optical terminals will be delivered this summer for integration with Blackjack satellite buses made by Blue Canyon Technologies and to be ready to launch this fall.
General Atomics won a $22,000,000 DARPA contract to develop the nuclear reactor for the DRACO demonstration.
Airbus OneWeb Satellites is performing subcontracts to Airbus that include work on two satellite buses for the Blackjack LEO constellation under a DARPA contract awarded to Telesat.
DARPA is investing nearly $30,000,000 in a project called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion system.
The team is contracted by DARPA to demonstrate swarm capabilities during the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment 2022.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space supported the fifth OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics DARPA program field exercise.
Research in ARCLab is funded by various sponsors including NASA, DARPA, and the National Science Foundation.
Mynaric was selected on 2021-12-20 to participate in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Space-BACN program to develop next-generation laser communications terminals to connect government and commercial satellites.
DARPA will choose some providers after phase 0 to continue into a 14-month phase to develop a bench-top model of the optical communications terminals.
DARPA's goal for Space-BACN is optical communications terminals that can transfer data at speeds of 100 gigabits per second and cost around $100,000 each.
DARPA plans to launch as many as 12 Blackjack satellites in 2022.
PredaSAR won a $2,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to demonstrate interoperability between its satellites and DARPA’s Blackjack constellation.
DARPA plans to launch as many as 12 Blackjack satellites in 2022 that will carry a mix of payloads for communications, targeting, missile warning, and navigation.
DARPA awarded the Parsons contract on 2021-12-10 as a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 award for a "Blackjack Prototype Ground Operations Center."
DARPA ordered 10 satellite buses for Blackjack from Blue Canyon Technologies and two buses from Telesat.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Parsons a $10,800,000 contract to prototype a ground operations center for the Blackjack constellation.
DARPA’s EXTREME program developed optical components, devices, systems, architectures, and design tools using engineered optical materials (metamaterials).
In 2018, DARPA partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Research Directorate to transition meta-optics concepts to unmanned aerial systems optical systems.
Sandia National Laboratories developed the MIRAGE tool under DARPA EXTREME and NGA Metalenses programs for large-scale metalens design and optimization using exploited symmetries.
The PolarFire product family provides DARPA researchers with new tools to address complex problems requiring high levels of operating performance and density.