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Tournear said today that there will be a total of 212 Transport Layer satellites orbited for what the agency calls its Tranche 2 configuration, which will begin launching in 2026.
SpaceX launches 10 satellites for U.S. Space Development Agency
The U.S. Space Development Agency is poised to test its small-satellite constellation.
The 10 satellites, which will be lofted on a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB to low Earth orbit (LEO), are the first batch of the Tranche 0 constellation, building blocks of America's resilient space strategy.
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.