{"id":124434,"date":"2021-06-29T21:22:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/space-development-agencys-first-satellites-to-launch-on-spacex-mission"},"modified":"2021-06-29T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T04:22:42","slug":"space-development-agencys-first-satellites-to-launch-on-spacex-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/space-development-agencys-first-satellites-to-launch-on-spacex-mission","title":{"rendered":"Space Development Agency\u2019s first satellites to launch on SpaceX mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-development-agencys-first-satellites-to-launch-on-spacex-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first five payloads from the Space Development Agency, an organization charged with rapidly infusing emerging technologies into the U.S. military\u2019s space programs, are among more than 80 satellites awaiting launch from Cape Canaveral Tuesday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2019, the Space Development Agency plans to deploy hundreds of small satellites to enable improved communications for the U.S. military. SDA\u2019s strategy leans on the rapid development of new commercial space technology, including new types of sensors and cheaper, easier-to-produce small satellites that can be deployed in large constellations in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>SDA plans to launch the first tranche of 28 satellites to provide initial infrared missile detection and low-latency data relay services in late 2022 and early 2023. Twenty of those satellites, part of the \u201ctransport layer,\u201d will be developed by Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems for communications support. The other eight \u201ctracking\u201d satellites will be supplied by SpaceX and L3Harris for missile detection and tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first five payloads from the Space Development Agency, an organization charged with rapidly infusing emerging technologies into the U.S. military\u2019s space programs, are among more than 80 satellites awaiting launch from Cape Canaveral Tuesday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Established in 2019, the Space Development Agency plans to deploy hundreds of small satellites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124434","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}