U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)

By Garrett Reim
The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to issue requests for information (RFI) in January for its Tranche 3 satellites.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Louisville, Colorado-based company is a prime contractor for the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Denver-based company is perhaps best known as a co-developer of the free-flying Starlab commercial space station for NASA.
Space

By Vivienne Machi
The organization sits under the U.S. Space Force and is fielding hundreds of satellites under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
The demonstration is intended to show that commercial satellites can connect via laser communications to the PWSA.
Satellites

By Brian Everstine
SpaceX is receiving $733.6 million for the two launches.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
Millennium, a Boeing company, is building eight satellites and one ground system for the SDA.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
As satellite operators turn to smaller, proliferated spacecraft to protect space-based capabilities, industry sees ground stations as a new target for attacks.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Denver-based aerospace company is on contract for more than 130 satellites to build out the SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
The agency’s first operational satellite deployment will test its innovative bureaucracy.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Space Development Agency’s first operational satellites are scheduled to launch early next year due to supply chain issues that prevented a 2024 launch.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The Space Development Agency is about to put the first operational satellites in its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture on orbit.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
Space-to-space and space-to-air tests are planned to prove optical communications capability.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The SDA is fielding a vast network of proliferated satellites in low Earth orbit.
Space

By Vivienne Machi
The Next-Gen OPIR program includes two satellites for use in geostationary orbit.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The Germany-based company has a U.S. subsidiary based in Hawthorne, California.
Commercial Space

By Vivienne Machi
The first U.S. military payload to be hosted aboard an international partner’s spacecraft is now in orbit.
Space

By Vivienne Machi
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 11:56 a.m. Pacific time from Space Launch Complex 4E.
Operations & Safety

By Vivienne Machi
The firm fixed-price other transaction authority contract awards are worth around $424 million to build and operate 20 new data communications satellites.
Commercial Space

By Matthew Fulco
Lockheed is both a key investor in Terran, with a 28.3% stake in the company, and its largest customer.
Commercial Space

By Vivienne Machi
The company recently completed environmental testing for its Tactical Satellite (TacSat) spacecraft at its facilities in Littleton, Colorado.
Commercial Space

By Vivienne Machi
The SDA’s Warfighter Integration Cell conducted a series of Link-16 tests over a two-day period.
Space

By Vivienne Machi
Northrop has completed the preliminary design review for over 70 data-transport spacecraft built for Tranche 2 of the SDA proliferated satellite constellation.
Defense

By Vivienne Machi
Under this next tranche, the agency plans to procure around 54 satellites with infrared sensors from one or more vendors.
Space

By Vivienne Machi
The Space Force has awarded contracts to Blue Origin, CACI International, General Atomics and Viasat to develop space laser-communication terminal prototypes.
Space