(CercleFinance.com) – Lockheed Martin announced this weekend that the ten satellites it has built have been successfully deployed in low Earth orbit (LEO) in support of the Tranche 0 Transport Layer (T0TL) mission of the Space Development Agency (SDA).
The SDA’s T0TL mission is a LEO constellation that must demonstrate low latency communication and provide a resilient network of integrated capabilities.
The small satellites were launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Base in California.
Lockheed Martin is currently building 42 satellites for SDA’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) and recently secured an agreement to build 36 of SDA’s 72 beta satellites for its Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) constellation.
The T1TL and T2TL Beta satellites will be assembled, integrated and tested at Lockheed Martin’s new small satellite (smallsat) processing facility, designed for high-volume delivery of complete satellites.
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