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By   Theresa Hitchens on February 16, 2021 at 4:05 PM UPDATED To Include Link To Space Symposium 365 Video. WASHINGTON: The Space Development Agency (SDA) and the builder and operator of America’s spy satellites, the NRO, are discussing how to move imagery more rapidly from spy satellites to warfighters for targeting, SDA Director Derek Tournear tells me. The two agencies are working on “joint roadmaps where we’re planning on being able to integrate their layer and get to the Transport...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 11, 2021 at 5:24 PM WASHINGTON: The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to issue a request for proposals this summer for some 150 satellites to provide “initial warfighting capability” for communications and missile tracking, says SDA Director Derek Tournear. The new satellites, to be launched in September 2024, will comprise what SDA calls “Tranche 1” of its planned seven-layer National Defense Space Architecture. They will follow-on the 20 Transpo...