Stay updated with breaking news from Transport Layer. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
"Translator" payloads are necessary because many of today's commercial remote sensing providers do not, and will not, have the ability to equip their satellites with optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) required to link to the agency's Transport Layer birds, said SDA Director Derek Tournear.
"We may say that we don't want to, and we stand behind not doing, kinetic debris creating testing, but that does not mean that we should not have that capability," said Mitchell Institute Senior Fellow for Spacepower Studies Tim Ryan.
SDA will decide next March whether the UHF- and SHF-band payloads being tested by T1DES should be integrated into its next iteration of Transport Layer data relay satellites.
While the first launch of nine to 10 Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 0 satellites has slipped from September until December, SDA said that it still
The Space Development Agency (SDA) on Oct. 6 said that it has awarded a firm-fixed price Other Transaction Authority prototype contract with a ceiling of