The U.S. military’s Space Development Agency hit a major milestone today, conducting its first launch to space. The mission sent 10 new communications and missile tracking satellites into low-Earth ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency selected three companies to build 18 satellites each for its space-based missile warning, tracking and defense constellation. The satellites will make up a ...

The Space Development Agency is charged with fielding hundreds of missile tracking and data transport satellites, the first of which are expected to be operational by 2026. (Space Development Agency) ...

The Space Development Agency will recompete a contract awarded last August to Tyvak to build 10 prototype satellites meant to inform future technology for the agency's constellation of data transport ...

The Space Development Agency on Aug. 21, 2023, awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for a total of 72 of Tranche 1 transport satellites. (Northrop Grumman) WASHINGTON — The head ...

“This is the tip of the spear,” U.S. Sen. John Hoeven said Friday at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. “This is the stuff that goes up against Russia and China.” Sen. John Hoeven and Derek Tournear, ...

On October 30, the Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded contracts totaling $1.3 billion to Redondo Beach, California-based Northrop Grumman Space Systems and Denver-based York Space Systems, which ...

The Space Development Agency announced Tuesday it has successfully launched the first prototype of 12 risk-reduction satellites that are part of the Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced plans to procure a separate ground system in support of its experimental missile defense satellites. The agency will seek to demonstrate ...