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SDA Transport Layer Smallsat

System
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Class: SatelliteSubclass: Communications Payload SubsystemOrganization: Lockheed Martin
Specifications
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SpecificationValueSources
MissionSpace Development Agency Transport Layer
Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 mission
TESAT delivers 1st SDA TRANCHE 1 optical comms terminal to Lockheed Martin
Launch SiteVandenberg Space Force Base
Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 mission
ManufacturerLockheed Martin
Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 missionTESAT delivers 1st SDA TRANCHE 1 optical comms terminal to Lockheed Martin
Program PhaseTranche 0 and Tranche 1 deployment
Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 missionTESAT delivers 1st SDA TRANCHE 1 optical comms terminal to Lockheed Martin
Launch VehicleSpaceX Falcon 9
Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 mission
Satellite Count Tranche 010
Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 mission
Satellite Count Tranche 142
TESAT delivers 1st SDA TRANCHE 1 optical comms terminal to Lockheed Martin
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Application

Value

Mesh network for proliferated low Earth orbit communications

Sources

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Conflicts

None

Corroboration Count

2

Optical Communications Terminal

Value

TESAT OCTs integrated on satellites for optical inter-satellite links

Sources

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Conflicts

None

Corroboration Count

1
Synthesis Evidence
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“The delivered OCTs are in place for integration on 42 smallsats that Lockheed Martin is building for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.”

TESAT delivers 1st SDA TRANCHE 1 optical comms terminal to Lockheed MartinDec 3, 2023cb6efd06-cdb1-4ad2-a282-950f05e0931a

“The ten Lockheed Martin-built smallsats launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.”

Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 missionSep 4, 20230651f681-1bf6-4494-92d4-bb85b1602fa6
Mention Sources
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TESAT delivers 1st SDA TRANCHE 1 optical comms terminal to Lockheed Martin1 mention

Dec 3, 2023

Launch Addendum: Lockheed Martin reports on their Transport Layer Satellites launch as part of the SDA’s Tranche 0 mission1 mention

Sep 4, 2023

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The ten Lockheed Martin-built smallsats launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

Mentioned as: SmallsatsSourceSep 4, 2023

The delivered OCTs are in place for integration on 42 smallsats that Lockheed Martin is building for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer.

Mentioned as: smallsatsSourceDec 3, 2023