RTX‘s (NYSE: RTX) smallsat manufacturer and mission services provider, Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), has announced that the satellites supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Blackjack program have completed […]
Military Space
General Atomics awarded SDA contract to demo optical comms terminals
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate the capabilities of the company’s Optical Communication Terminals (OCTs) hosted on GA-EMS’ […]
Innoflight delivers initial engineering development units to L3Harris for SDA Tranche T1TL
The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded a prototype agreement to L3Harris Technologies last year to provide initial missile warning/missile tracking warfighting capability of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). Innoflight […]
Sierra Space awarded million$$$ prime contract by SDA
Sierra Space has won a significant contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for 18 missile warning and tracking satellites. The prime contract, valued at $740 million and awarded through […]
SDA awards L3Harris million$$$ contract to build satellites for missile tracking program
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) received a contract with a potential value of up to $919 million to design and build 18 infrared space vehicles for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche […]
L3Harris clears CDR + PRR for SDA’s Tranche 1 missile tracking satellites
L3Harris completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR) for 16 missile tracking satellites that will be part of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer […]
Space Development Agency completes space to ground transmission from Link 16 Tactical Data Network
The Space Development Agency (SDA) has successfully demonstrated the first-ever Link 16 network entry through space to ground connection from LEO to a series of receivers using terrestrial radios during […]
Northrop Grumman completes CDR for the SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) recently completed the company’s Critical Design Review (CDR) on a proliferated LEO constellation of 16 missile tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency (SDA), clearing […]
Terran Orbital to build 36 satellite buses for Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) a contract to build 36 satellite buses for Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Beta constellation. Terran Orbital […]
L3Harris to advance DoD’s SDA mission
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) rhas eceived two contracts worth as much as $134 million to update portions of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Space Domain Awareness (SDA) mission. The Ground Based […]