U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)

By Michael Bruno
Space-tug startup Momentus may have received a fatal blow after losing the U.S. Space Development Agency’s recent competition for 18 Tranche 2 satellites.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Rocket Lab has been awarded a $489 million contract to design, build and operate 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites for the SDA.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The Tracking Layer satellites are to be part of the first group of operational missile-tracking spacecraft in the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The service is adding a new approach to launch contracting, as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture takes shape.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The Gamma variant is scheduled to follow into development the first two variants of the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Tracking Layer.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The SDA has issued its solicitation for a new, experimental satellite constellation to look for classified threats.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Link 16 is a tactical data link used by the U.S. military, NATO, and U.S. coalition partner nations.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The spacecraft is the Pentagon’s first experimental navigation satellite in nearly 50 years.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Space Force has assigned 21 launches for fiscal 2024 under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch service procurement contract.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Northrop Grumman and York will build another 100 data transport satellites under new $1.3 billion contracts from the Space Development Agency.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital a contract to build 36 sat buses for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta constellation
Space

By Garrett Reim
The Space Development Agency said the launch manifest included Transport satcoms from Lockheed Martin Space and York Space Systems, and a SpaceX Tracking sat.
Space

By Garrett Reim
LeoStella and Hera Systems have formed a strategic manufacturing partnership and put forward a proposal for the U.S. Space Development Agency.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have been contracted to deliver T2TL Beta satellite variants for the Space Development Agency.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The study contracts were awarded via the SDA’s System, Technologies, and Emerging Capabilities broad agency announcement.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The startup asserts that its radio-­frequency electric propulsion unit is easier to manufacture.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
This is the focus of the recently announced Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
SDA in April launched its first Tranche 0 data transport satellites, which will send the datalink to military cockpits and other receivers below.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The FOO Fighter system is to demonstrate defense against advanced missiles.
Space

By Brian Everstine
This includes both rapid launch to reconstitute satellite architectures and on-orbit servicing.
Space

By Irene Klotz
United Launch Alliance and SpaceX will split the dozen launch contracts under the National Space Security Launch (NSS) Phase Two program.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A request for information published May 31 adds both technologies to a narrower, previous SDA description of the Tranche 2 experimental program.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Space Development Agency on May 12 issued a draft solicitation for the first phase of its Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Small-satellite manufacturer has been teasing its capacity for more than a year.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.
Commercial Space