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New SDA Director Unveils Notional Space Architecture, Outlines Top Agency Priorities

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

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New SDA Director Unveils Notional Space Architecture, Outlines Top Agency Priorities

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The leader of the new Space Development Agency (SDA) unveiled April 9 a notional future space architecture that the agency plans to develop over the next few years during his first public appearance as SDA director at the Space Foundation’s 35th annual Space Symposium here. The main priority is to build a proliferated communications and transport layer enmeshed network in low-Earth orbit, that will be resilient and upgradeable, and be derived from commercial systems wherever feasible,…

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