US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites
Northrop Grumman and L3Harris Technologies have won contracts worth up to $1.3 billion to build a 28-satellite constellation to support missile warning and tracking by the US Space Development Agency .are scheduled to launch in April 2025 and all 28 will eventually be tasked with collecting infrared data and providing network communications. There will also be a Ka-band payload.
The satellites are to be divided equally between the two companies, with 14 apiece. Melbourne-based L3Harris was awarded a potential $700 million while Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems scored $617 million."These prototypes will provide global and persistent indications, detection, warning, tracking, and identification of conventional and advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems," said the SDA.
Northrop Grumman was delighted with its win, as well as the impressively swift 120 days for the SDA to go from solicitation to award. Both L3Harris and Northrop Grumman have already worked with the SDA. L3Harris developed four prototype satellites under the SDA's Tracking Layer Tranche 0 award in 2020. Those spacecraft were produced under a $193 million fixed-price contract and are due for launch next year. Northrop Grumman
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