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Terran Orbital Corporation awarded a $15.2 million contract from the US Space Force Terran Orbital Corporation announced it was awarded a $15.2 million contract to supply Ambassador Class satellite platforms complete with solar arrays and support equipment to the Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL. The contract, managed through Axient Corporation, will integrate payloads onto these ESPA-Grande size space vehicle platforms to support specific United States Space Force missions.  Delivery is planned in the 4th quarter of 2024. “These platforms are based on Terran Orbital’s commercial off-the-shelf Ambassador platform, similar to those provided for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites being delivered by Lockheed Martin,” said Marc Bell, Terran Orbital’s Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer. “Demonstrating Terran Orbital’s commitment to Responsive Space, these space vehicles will be delivered off Terran Orbital’s production line in less than twelve months,” Bell added. #TerranOrbital #SpaceForce #AFRL #Axient #Award #Satellite #Space https://lnkd.in/e_NREykg

Manufacturing around the USA... Colorado... Lockheed Martin has opened a facility that streamlines small satellite (smallsat) processing to enable high-rate delivery. The multi-million dollar facility will house the company’s Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites, among other smallsat programs and technology demonstrators. The 20,000-square-foot low bay clean room, located on the company’s Waterton campus, will feature six scalable parallel assembly lines and is configurable to host different classifications of missions concurrently. Built with flow and throughput in mind, the center is tailored to accommodate all stages of smallsat development, including spacecraft-level functional and performance testing. Manufacturing Business Technology | #Manufacturing | #Space

🚀 Ten Lockheed Martin-built satellites have successfully been deployed into low-Earth orbit (LEO) in support of the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 0 Transport Layer (T0TL) mission. SDA's T0TL is a proliferated LEO constellation that will demonstrate low-latency communication and provide a resilient network of integrated capabilities. 🚀 Lockheed Martin is currently building 42 satellites for SDA's Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) and was recently awarded an agreement to build 36 of SDA's 72 Beta variant satellites for its Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) constellation. The T1TL and T2TL Beta satellites will be assembled, integrated, and tested in Lockheed Martin's new small satellite (smallsat) processing facility that is designed for the high-volume delivery of complete satellites. #space #development #satellite #orbit #mission #spacex #spacetechnology #spaceindustry #tranche0 #technology #innovation #delivery #lockheedmartin

This SDA Tranche 0 Transport Layer is an attempt to build a mesh network where, among other systems, Link 16 can travel node to node across the globe making the transmission more difficult to block. As you can imagine, this is very important.

Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE:LLAP) told investors that 10 #satellites incorporating its buses have been deployed in low earth orbit after launching from the Vandenberg #Space Force Base in California on September 2, 2023. The company said in a statement that the 10 form part of the Tranche 0 Transport Layer of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). It manufactured the buses for Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) for payload integration and delivery to the SDA. This is the latest in a series of announcements from #TerranOrbital (NYSE:LLAP) as it progresses with its goal to establish new benchmarks for satellite #technology for the coming decade. “It is a great honor to contribute to this important mission by delivering our 10 satellite buses to #LockheedMartin (NYSE:LMT),” Terran Orbital (NYSE:LLAP) co-founder, chairman and CEO Marc Bell More at #Proactive #ProactiveInvestors http://ow.ly/qlFC104UAns #NYSE #LLAP

#space #aerospace #astronautics #astronautics4xploit The space tow truck, an endeavor to clean up the highly trafficked region of the Earth's orbit and remove defunct satellites, is receiving tremendous attention and investment because of the proliferation of the satellites in Earth’s orbit and the space debris becoming a big issue. The higher the space exploration rates the higher the generated space debris. Research findings show that millions of space junk, such as spent rocket stages, dead satellites, etc., are abound in space and are of great threat to the functioning satellites and trillions of dollars of space investment. Over the years, various proposals of space tow-truck have been put forward and implemented by space companies such as NORTHROP GRUMMAN, ClearSpace, Blue Origin, Impulse Space, Effective Space, and a host of others. Several space tow truck ideas and concepts had been floated. Clearspace-1, the ClearSpace company’s concept, is an unmanned 'tow truck' spacecraft designed to target part of an ESA rocket that has been floating about 435 miles above Earth since 2013. Northrup Grumman Space Logistics is developing a fleet of space tow trucks to help other companies' satellites live in orbit around Earth a bit longer. Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1), whose mission is to essentially act as a space tow truck, was successfully launched into orbit. Blue Origin, Impulse Space, and a host of others are researching and developing space tow truck spacecraft that will help to move payload after being blasted into space. In this video, Astronautics4Xploit presents "Space Tow Truck & Its Emerging Companies: A Multi-Billion Dollar Endeavor for Spacecraft Servicing". The focus points are Space Tow Truck Spacecraft and Space Tow Truck Emerging Company. For more information, contact Astronautics4Xploit at: Website: https://lnkd.in/gpeiAGS YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gKnRqiz Facebook: https://lnkd.in/getxfPK Instagram: https://lnkd.in/gsKpFG7 LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gsY8pYN Please, remember to SUBSCRIBE to our channel. Thanks. https://lnkd.in/eBAE9MfA

#space #aerospace #astronautics #astronautics4xploit The space tow truck, an endeavor to clean up the highly trafficked region of the Earth's orbit and remove defunct satellites, is receiving tremendous attention and investment because of the proliferation of the satellites in Earth’s orbit and the space debris becoming a big issue. The higher the space exploration rates the higher the generated space debris. Research findings show that millions of space junk, such as spent rocket stages, dead satellites, etc., are abound in space and are of great threat to the functioning satellites and trillions of dollars of space investment. Over the years, various proposals of space tow-truck have been put forward and implemented by space companies such as NORTHROP GRUMMAN, ClearSpace, Blue Origin, Impulse Space, Effective Space, and a host of others. Several space tow truck ideas and concepts had been floated. Clearspace-1, the ClearSpace company’s concept, is an unmanned 'tow truck' spacecraft designed to target part of an ESA rocket that has been floating about 435 miles above Earth since 2013. Northrup Grumman Space Logistics is developing a fleet of space tow trucks to help other companies' satellites live in orbit around Earth a bit longer. Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1), whose mission is to essentially act as a space tow truck, was successfully launched into orbit. Blue Origin, Impulse Space, and a host of others are researching and developing space tow truck spacecraft that will help to move payload after being blasted into space. In this video, Astronautics4Xploit presents "Space Tow Truck & Its Emerging Companies: A Multi-Billion Dollar Endeavor for Spacecraft Servicing". The focus points are Space Tow Truck Spacecraft and Space Tow Truck Emerging Company. For more information, contact Astronautics4Xploit at: Website: https://lnkd.in/gpeiAGS YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gKnRqiz Facebook: https://lnkd.in/getxfPK Instagram: https://lnkd.in/gsKpFG7 LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gsY8pYN Please, remember to SUBSCRIBE to our channel. Thanks.

As more and more vertical launches occur and current launch facilities become overly congested, the FAA will need to alleviate this problem by licensing overland launch. That makes launch pads in places like #Yuma appealing. From Yuma one could launch east and launch over the Goldwater Range with miles upon miles of a military bombing range land or south to Polar orbit passing over a small, largely uninhabited area of Mexico before being over the Sea of Cortez. Greg Autry mentions the safety records of both SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA). I’d offer Rocket Lab into that category as well. Tried and true launch vehicles with a long record of safety should be able to launch vertically inland. #space #arizona #spacelaw #spacelobbyist #Spacebirds #spacelaunch #commercialspace #newspace #Spacebird NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Force Association United States Space Force

Space Force plans to purchase commercial space capabilities - Federal News Network The Space Force is seeking to integrate commercial innovation into Space Domain Awareness. The Space Force has created several initiatives to achieve this goal, including the Space Domain Awareness Marketplace, the SSC Front Door, and SpaceWERX. The Space Force is also looking to concentrate on Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and move away from the tracking and conjunction assessment of objects in space, especially as the majority of objects in orbit are increasingly commercially owned and operated . The Space Force has issued several requests for information, requests for proposal, and sources sought notices for networking capabilities in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum for cyber defense to fulfill the DoD great power strategic competition initiatives. These initiatives aim to develop a tactically responsive space capability that can rapidly detect, warn, characterize, attribute, and predict threats to national, allied, and commercial space systems. What are some other storage solutions for big data? Space Force is looking to leverage data gathered by the Department of Commerce (DoC) to enhance its own efforts to improve space domain awareness (SDA). The DoC is gearing up a new space tracking system to help commercial satellite operators avoid on-orbit smashups. The Space Force will be looking to see if it can leverage data gathered by DoC to enhance its own efforts to improve SDA Data lake storage is a storage solution that can cater to the needs of data scientists, engineers, and traditional data warehouse professionals. It is an open standards-based storage solution that can store and process large amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data in its native format. The Space Force has issued several requests for information, requests for proposal, and sources sought notices for networking capabilities in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum for cyber defense. These initiatives aim to develop a tactically responsive space capability that can rapidly detect, warn, characterize, attribute, and predict threats to national security, U.S. Joint and Allied forces, and commercial space systems. The DoD great power strategic competition initiatives are driving these efforts. Learn more: What is the DoD great power strategic competition initiative? learn.microsoft.com https://lnkd.in/evQE-UsQ saic.com breakingdefense.com How does commercial space industry help the military? SpaceZE video and news network. Covering the business, news and the science of the space industry every day. https://lnkd.in/esXYBdtE #csis #NorthropGrumman #Firefly #DefenseInnovation #DIU #DOC #IntegratedSystems #SpaceForce #SpaceDomainAwareness #SDA #GovExec #SpaceMatters