SPIE Astro: NASA awards lift-off services contract for Roman Space Telescope to SpaceX...
...and U.S. Space Development Agency funding 28 satellites for hostile missile tracking.
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...and U.S. Space Development Agency funding 28 satellites for hostile missile tracking.
The Space Development Agency (SDA) said on July 18 that it has awarded L3Harris and Northrop Grumman fixed price Other Transaction Authority contracts
The awards are a first step in the Space Force's plan, which will move the Defense Department away from today's reliance on a a handful of large expensive satellites in Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and highly elliptical polar orbits, SDA Director Derek Tournear said.
The WFOV satellite, being built by Boeing's Millennium Space Systems, is expected to launch this evening on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket, under the National Security Space Launch program.
"Key for us is allowing on-ramps, allowing for some smaller launches to have a chance," a senior Space Force official told Breaking Defense, in order to avoid billion-dollar "Titan-era prices."