{"id":121698,"date":"2021-04-18T03:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/space-development-agency-could-select-three-manufacturers-to-produce-its-next-batch-of-satellites"},"modified":"2021-04-18T03:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:22:32","slug":"space-development-agency-could-select-three-manufacturers-to-produce-its-next-batch-of-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/space-development-agency-could-select-three-manufacturers-to-produce-its-next-batch-of-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Space Development Agency could select three manufacturers to produce its next batch of satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-development-agency-could-select-three-manufacturers-to-produce-its-next-batch-of-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Space Development Agency is considering buying its next 150 satellites from three different vendors.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s Space Development Agency is considering buying its <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/dod-space-agency-to-award-multiple-contracts-for-up-to-150-satellites\/\">next 150 satellites<\/a> from three different vendors, but that could change after the agency evaluates companies\u2019 bids, SDA director Derek Tournear said April 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/dod-space-agency-cyber-attacks-not-missiles-are-the-most-worrisome-threat-to-satellites\/\">Speaking at the Washington Space Business Roundtable<\/a>, Tournear said a request for proposals will be issued in August for the agency\u2019s Transport Layer Tranche 1 \u2014 a network of hundreds of communications satellites in low Earth orbit projected to start launching in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The request will be for 150 satellites but SDA has not yet decided how that order will be divvied up. \u201cThere is probably three awards for those 150 satellites, but we\u2019re not wed to three,\u201d Tournear said. \u201cThree is not a magic number. I\u2019m really interested in industry feedback when they see our acquisition strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Development Agency is considering buying its next 150 satellites from three different vendors. WASHINGTON \u2014 The Pentagon\u2019s Space Development Agency is considering buying its next 150 satellites from three different vendors, but that could change after the agency evaluates companies\u2019 bids, SDA director Derek Tournear said April 14. Speaking at the Washington Space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}