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Before leading the Space Development Agency, Fred Kennedy was the director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office.
Fred Kennedy had been serving on a detail from DARPA while serving as director of the Space Development Agency.
The Phantom Express experimental spaceplane is being developed for DARPA and may launch from the Kennedy Space Center.
A stealth company was one of three firms that qualified for DARPA’s Launch Challenge competition in April 2019.
DARPA’s Launch Challenge offered a $10,000,000 grand prize.
DARPA awarded a $400,000 prize to each of the three competitors in its Launch Challenge.
The Department of Defense, the Space Development Agency, and DARPA must provide a report by 2020-02-15 detailing progress on a proliferated LEO architecture and how it could enhance resilience and integrate into national security space strategy and architecture.
The committee directs the Secretary of Defense to brief the committee by 2019-12-01 on progress with DARPA’s Blackjack and any related programs developing a proliferated global LEO constellation.
The Space Development Agency was stood up on 2019-03-12 and is led by former DARPA official Fred Kennedy.
Tethers Unlimited is targeting the small satellite market in low Earth orbit for LEO Knight, focusing on spacecraft too small to be economically serviced by robotic spacecraft developed under DARPA’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program.
The STP-4 mission was originally scheduled for April 2021 to launch DARPA’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites vehicle.
Airbus received a $2,900,000 contract from DARPA last fall to produce satellite buses for DARPA’s Blackjack program.
The DARPA contract has provided Airbus with experience working on U.S. defense programs and serves as a stepping stone to other potential projects.
Blackjack will remain a joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force program while the Space Development Agency develops a larger proliferated LEO architecture for operational use.
Northrop Grumman built the R3D2 satellite for DARPA that launched on 2019-03-28 on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket to demonstrate deployment of a large antenna from a small satellite.
Fred Kennedy, director of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office and mastermind of DARPA’s Blackjack program, was selected to lead the Space Development Agency.
As part of the DARPA Launch Challenge, the three companies will first attempt to launch payloads into orbit in January or February 2020.
Each company that places a payload into orbit during the first launch of the DARPA Launch Challenge will receive $2,000,000 and must perform a second launch from a different site on short notice.
Fred Kennedy previously led DARPA’s Blackjack effort to buy small satellites from the same vendors supplying megaconstellations like OneWeb.
Each of the three qualifying companies received $400,000 from DARPA.