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February 15, 2024

MDA, SDA Confirm Successful Launch of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor and Tranche 0 Satellites

U.S. Department of Defense On Wednesday, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Development Agency (SDA) confirmed the successful launch

February 15, 2024

MDA, SDA Announce Upcoming Launch of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor and Tranche 0 Satellites

U.S. Department of Defense The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Space Development Agency (SDA) announce the upcoming launch of six

February 9, 2024

GEOST to provide Sierra Space missile tracking/fire control payloads for SDA effort

Breaking Defense Sierra Space has tapped GEOST to provide sensor payloads for both missile tracking and “fire control” for its 18

January 17, 2024

US SDA awards L3Harris contract for IR space vehicles

Airforce Technology The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded a contract to L3Harris Technologies worth $919m that marks substantial progress on

January 17, 2024

Pentagon’s next-gen missile-tracking effort moves ahead—for now

Defense One The Pentagon has picked the builders of a big chunk of its next-gen missile-tracking satellites, but the effort

December 5, 2023

Space Development Agency wants missile-defense satellites with infrared sensors to track hypersonic missiles

Military+Aerospace Electrionics U.S. missile-defense experts are reaching out to industry for a company to design and build four to eight

November 29, 2023

SDA Demonstrates Link 16 from Space for First Time Ever

Air & Space Forces Magazine The Space Development Agency (SDA) has demonstrated the first-ever Link 16 network broadcast from space

September 26, 2023

Space System Command (SSC) opens new TAP Lab for Space Domain Awareness (SDA) innovation

SatNews The collaborative working space is designed to advance space domain awareness by rapidly onboarding “apps to close gaps,” decomposing

September 22, 2023

Laser comms in orbit underpin Space Force’s Transport and Tracking layers for data and missile warning

Breaking Defense With mission experience and partnerships across the space industry, Northrop Grumman is executing the Space Development Agency’s vision

September 21, 2023

Space Force looking to fill tech ‘gaps,’ and ‘evolve’ space domain awareness: Saltzman

Breaking Defense Citing the criticality of space domain awareness for everything the Space Force does, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman