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US to expand hypersonic missile-tracking satellite network with new $3.5 billion award

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has announced that it awarded roughly $3.5 billion in contracts to four companies to build the next phase of a low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation designed to detect ...
SpaceNews

Anduril to acquire space-tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions

Anduril Industries said it plans to acquire ExoAnalytic Solutions, a company that operates one of the world’s largest commercial networks of telescopes used to track satellites and space debris, in a ...
AFCEA

Space Development Agency Selects Lockheed, Rocket Lab, Northrop and L3Harris for Missile Warning and Tracking Capabilities

The Space Development Agency (SDA) announced on December 19 four awards to procure 72 satellites for its Tranche 3 Tracking Layer constellation. The launch is part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space ...
Aviation Week

USSPACECOM Has Missile Defeat, Space Fires On Fiscal ’27 Wish List

Russell Vela, chief of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Multi-Domain Technologies Division, briefs Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, on the USASMDC SPECTRE ...
SpaceNews

Space Development Agency awards $3.5 billion in contracts for missile-tracking satellites

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency announced Dec. 19 it awarded about $3.5 billion in contracts to four companies to build 72 missile-tracking satellites for the next phase of a low Earth orbit ...