SDA Ushers In A New Era Of Military Space

SpaceX launch

SpaceX launched the first 10 Space Development Agency satellites from Vandenberg SFB in California.

Credit: U.S. Space Force
In March 2019, the U.S. Space Development Agency was signed into existence by then-Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan. It was an office with three employees and an idea—similar to low Earth orbit commercial constellations by OneWeb and SpaceX—to proliferate hundreds of satellites that would be...

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