DoD says that the U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) has met the "minimum viable product" (MVP) standard for the agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 0 Transport Layer communications satellites and Tracking Layer missile warning satellites, but a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said that four evaluated contractors for the Tranche 0 satellites have only met standards four times out of 32 in eight optical communications terminal (OCT) categories. SpaceX hit the mark three times--in the category of…
