SDA awards $3.5B to Lockheed, L3Harris, Northrop and Rocket Lab for Tranche 3 PWSA Tracking Layer missile-warning satellites.

The Constant Watchers High above Earth's surface, GOES-18 and GOES-19 are the current pair of operational geostationary satellites monitoring the Western Hemisphere, orbiting in the GOES West and GOES ...

The SDA, part of the US Space Force, launches new generations of its systems roughly every two years. Tranche 1 was built by ...

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 ...

The Space Development Agency has awarded L3Harris Technologies a nearly $1 billion contract to build satellites that would ...

The US SDA has disclosed the awarding of four agreements to produce 72 satellites for its Tracking Layer Tranche 3 initiative ...

LeoLabs has won an interagency contract to provide space-surveillance data for the U.S. government, supporting adversarial spacecraft monitoring and the TraCSS orbital traffic coordination platform ...

Cutting space-tracking efforts risks collisions — and U.S. leadership in commercializing outer space. September 1, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDTToday at 7:00 a.m. EDT ...

WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency selected three companies to build 18 satellites each for its space-based missile warning, tracking and defense constellation. The satellites will make up a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s not just satellites tracking tropical activity from above – astronauts onboard the International Space Station use their bird’s eye view to aid researchers on the ground.

The idea is to build three deep-space tracking stations in the United States, Britain, and Australia, with the first to be constructed and operational in Australia by 2026, a second in Britain with ...

"As Santa flies through the skies, satellites track his position by detecting Rudolph's nose, which gives off an infrared signature similar to that of a missile." ...