Contractors urged to "have a different mentality" on parts ordering

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The Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO program ‘will provide opportunities for companies to gain valuable experience working with SDA on demonstration projects’

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The agency wants to deploy a "common, enduring ground infrastructure" for space-based missile detection and targeting experiments

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The company revealed payload and ground systems subcontractors for its Space Development Agency satellite contract

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Millennium Space won a $414 million contract from the Space Development Agency to build eight satellites equipped with advanced infrared and optical sensors

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The contract from the Space Development Agency is for the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program

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Bottlenecks emerge in the space industrial base as companies adapt to new demands for faster, cheaper satellites.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – The Space Development Agency is working closely with Norway to test the communications network underpinning its constellation. SDA is installing a radio-frequency antenna in northern Norway and […]

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Mercury announced a $31 million contract to supply solid-state data recorders to L3Harris Technologies for U.S. Space Development Agency missile-warning satellites.

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SDA’s Tracking Layer Tranche 1 program will not include seven Raytheon-made satellites as originally planned

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Once on the chopping block, SDA now has a $4.2 billion budget to build a satellite network of hundreds of satellites

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“Since 2021 we have doubled in size annually in terms of people employed, projects and revenue," said Kush Patel, Relative Dynamics founder and CEO.

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EpiSci won a $1.6 million SBIR contract from the Space Development Agency

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The USSF-124 mission carried six small satellites: two for the Missile Defense Agency and four for the Space Development Agency.

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The Space Development Agency announced Jan. 16 it selected L3Harris, Lockheed Martin and Sierra Space to build and operate 54 satellites equipped with infrared sensors.

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The Space Development Agency is gearing up for its next procurement of satellites for a military communications network known as the Transport Layer Tranche 2.

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A national security space mission that had been projected to launch in December 2023 is being delayed until the second quarter of 2024 due to technical issues with one of the spacecraft.

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Space launch provider and satellite manufacturer Rocket Lab has secured a deal worth over half a billion dollars to build 18 satellites for a U.S. government agency.

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Defense contractor L3Harris announced Dec. 20 it has received approval from the Space Development Agency to move into production on 16 satellites designed to detect and monitor hypersonic missiles aimed at the U.S. or its allies. 

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The Space Development Agency has set its sights on an ambitious launch schedule for 2024 following two successful launches this year.

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The Space Development Agency for the first time demonstrated space-to-ground data communications from low Earth orbit satellites launched earlier this year.

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The Space Development Agency awarded SpaceRake, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup, $1.8 million to develop miniature laser communications terminals.

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The Space Development Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $732 million contract for 38 communications satellites that will be part of the U.S. military’s low Earth orbit space architecture.

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Tesat-Spacecom’s laser communications terminals passed key ground tests required to be deployed on Space Development Agency satellites, the company announced Oct. 26.

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