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Latest on upcoming launches from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as the Space Coast saw a record number of launches in 2022 and more expected in 2023.

The bulk of SDA's FY24 request, some $4.1 billion, is in research, development, test and evaluation aimed at getting the first iterations of its planned satellites for both data relay, called the Transport Layer, and missile warning and tracking, called the Tracking Layer, into orbit.

Cape Canaveral’s infrastructure is being stretched to its limits as the world’s busiest launch site continues to get busier.

Space Force CTIO Linda Costa said the UDL “was built based on the premise that we’re just going to process Space Force data… [but] it’s really the commercial data at scale that we need to combine with the Space Force data.”

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REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Northrop Grumman reports that it is leveraging digital virtual-reality (VR) technology to refine the design and development of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Polar (NGP) satellites, which it is building for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC).

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The company is using private capital to build its hunter satellite, called Jackal, to shadow adversary satellites seeking to evade US tracking.