{"id":170143,"date":"2023-08-21T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/space-development-agency-awards-contracts-to-lockheed-martin-northrop-grumman-for-72-satellites"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:24:53","slug":"space-development-agency-awards-contracts-to-lockheed-martin-northrop-grumman-for-72-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/space-development-agency-awards-contracts-to-lockheed-martin-northrop-grumman-for-72-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Space Development Agency awards contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman for 72 satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-development-agency-awards-contracts-to-lockheed-martin-northrop-grumman-for-72-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency announced Aug. 21 it awarded contracts worth $1.5 billion to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to build and operate 72 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Development Agency (SDA), an organization under the U.S. Space Force, is building a mesh<a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-development-agency-renames-constellation-to-reflect-focus-on-u-s-warfighter\/?preview_id=140632&preview_nonce=0118ef1bb4&preview=true&_thumbnail_id=141872\"> network of military satellites<\/a> in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The 72 satellites will make up a portion of SDA\u2019s network known as Tranche 2 Transport Layer. SDA is building a large constellation called the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-development-agency-renames-constellation-to-reflect-focus-on-u-s-warfighter\/\">proliferated warfighter space architecture<\/a> that includes a Transport Layer of interconnected communications satellites and a Tracking Layer of missile-detection and warning sensor satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Space Development Agency announced Aug. 21 it awarded contracts worth $1.5 billion to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to build and operate 72 satellites. The Space Development Agency (SDA), an organization under the U.S. Space Force, is building a mesh network of military satellites in low Earth orbit. The 72 satellites will [\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-170143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170143","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=170143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}