Defense World

The U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has announced a search for contractors to build a sensor network in space to track hypersonic missiles cruising at 3,100mph.

On June 5, the Agency issued a request for proposal (RFP) that calls for “commercial services to launch and support its Tracking Phenomenology Experiment [TPE].” It is soliciting bids to integrate a missile-warning sensor with a satellite bus and launch it to low Earth orbit by late 2021.

The “tracking phenomenology experiment” is to develop sensor algorithms for a future missile detection network in space.

Proposals are due July 6.

The package is the first part of SDA’s plan to deploy a large constellation of low orbiting satellites in 2022 to target hypersonic weapons and ballistic missiles, Space News wrote.

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