Author: Frank Wolfe
March 29, 2024
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a solicitation this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the T2TL series. The T2TL Alpha and Beta satellites, which are to begin launches in September 2026, are to have three optical communications terminals (OCTs), and the Gamma…
March 26, 2024
More than four years after the establishment of a sixth military service, U.S. Space Force, in December 2019, a new report advises the creation of a seventh service, the U.S. Cyber Force, which would initially come under the Department of the Army. “In the U.S. military, an officer who had never fired a rifle would…
March 21, 2024
By the end of next year, Boeing's small satellite plant in El Segundo, California, may reach an annual production capacity of 60 satellites. In 2018, Boeing bought Millennium Space Systems, which has grown from 200 employees to 1,000, including 800 at Boeing’s small satellite plant in El Segundo. “Millennium has 100 percent success on its 15…
March 21, 2024
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) said that it has ironed out wrinkles in Link 16 delivery from space to military forces over existing radios. Last November, SDA said that it had debuted the provision of Link 16 data from space with three Tranche 0 Transport Layer York Space Systems satellites that demonstrated network entry through space to…