{"id":140544,"date":"2022-06-13T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dod-space-agency-to-acquire-10-satellites-for-experiments-in-low-earth-orbit"},"modified":"2022-06-13T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T23:23:31","slug":"dod-space-agency-to-acquire-10-satellites-for-experiments-in-low-earth-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/dod-space-agency-to-acquire-10-satellites-for-experiments-in-low-earth-orbit","title":{"rendered":"DoD space agency to acquire 10 satellites for experiments in low Earth orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dod-space-agency-to-acquire-10-satellites-for-experiments-in-low-earth-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency is looking to acquire as many as 10 satellites to host military payloads for experiments in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>This new procurement of satellites \u2013 known as the NExT experimental testbed \u2013 replaces a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-development-agency-seeks-proposals-for-18-satellites-with-experimental-payloads\/\">previous SDA program called T1DES<\/a> announced last fall.<\/p>\n<p>The T1DES procurement was for 18 satellites hosting industry-developed experimental payloads. The plan was to integrate them with the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2948229\/space-development-agency-makes-awards-for-126-satellites-to-build-tranche-1-tra\/\">126-satellite broadband constellation<\/a> known as the Transport Layer Tranche 1 projected to launch in 2024. Under the new plan, SDA will move forward with the deployment of the Transport Layer and will select a separate contractor to produce 10 satellites that will host government-developed payloads for technology experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency is looking to acquire as many as 10 satellites to host military payloads for experiments in low Earth orbit. This new procurement of satellites \u2013 known as the NExT experimental testbed \u2013 replaces a previous SDA program called T1DES announced last fall. The T1DES procurement was for 18 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":[1490,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140544","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=140544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}