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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded SEAKR Engineering a $60,400,000 contract on 2021-03-12 to develop a data processing system for satellites to operate autonomously.
DARPA selected SEAKR Engineering in 2019 to develop the artificial brain of the Blackjack satellite network.
DARPA began the Blackjack program in 2018 to demonstrate the use of small satellites in low Earth orbit to provide services including communications, missile warning, and navigation.
DARPA selected SEAKR Engineering in 2019 to develop the artificial brain of the Blackjack satellite network.
DARPA began the Blackjack program in 2018 to demonstrate the use of small satellites in low Earth orbit to provide communications, missile warning, and navigation services.
DARPA plans to launch an on-orbit technology demonstration of Pit Boss in 2021.
The new DARPA contract with SEAKR Engineering is for work to be completed by March 2022.
DARPA awarded SEAKR Engineering a $60,400,000 contract on 2021-03-12 to develop a data processing system for satellites to operate autonomously.
DARPA has ordered 10 satellite buses for Blackjack from Blue Canyon Technologies.
The commercially augmented space inter-networked operations program, CASINO, run by Lt. Col. Tim Trimailo, was created to support DARPA’s Blackjack program.
David Whelan previously worked at Boeing and DARPA before serving as chief scientist of Cubic Corporation.
The Space Development Agency is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on optical inter-satellite link technology and has issued solicitations seeking information from companies on the state of the technology.
Blue Canyon is developing a custom bus design for DARPA based on its 150-kilogram X-SAT commercial bus.
DARPA exercised an option to buy six additional satellites in addition to four the agency ordered in June under a $14,100,000 contract.
DARPA plans to start deploying a Blackjack constellation by late 2022.
Blue Canyon Technologies received a contract option worth $26,500,000 to produce six satellites for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
DARPA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Space Development Agency produced a holiday card featuring pictures of the Mandrake 2 satellites.
DARPA and the Space Development Agency are building mesh networks in low-Earth orbit and have interest in optical inter-satellite link capabilities.
DARPA seeks system designs that are so mass-efficient they can only be built off Earth and that include features enabling them to withstand maneuvers, eclipses, damage, and thermal cycles typical of space and lunar environments.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a project called Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials and Mass-efficient Design on 2021-02-05.