The Space Development Agency has awarded a contract for 62 more satellites for its massive planned constellation in low-Earth orbit, an agency spokesperson confirmed Oct. 20. York Space Systems has been tapped to produce the satellites for the Alpha segment of the Tranche 2 Transport Layer. ...
The Space Development Agency successfully launched 13 small satellites into orbit Sept. 2, more than doubling the size of “Tranche 0” of its planned constellation in low-Earth orbit. And while it only took three years from contract award to launch for this latest batch—breakneck speed by ...
The Space Development Agency awarded contracts Aug. 21 to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin for 36 satellites each as part of Tranche 2 of its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), a large constellation of satellites in low-Earth orbit. The two deals, worth a collective $1.55 billion, are ...
The Space Development Agency successfully got its Tranche 0 satellites off the ground April 2, two and half years after it first awarded the contract. Those two and a half years included a few extra days of delays, but when a SpaceX rocket lifted off ...