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Scout Space Wins Space Force Funding for GEO Space Domain Awareness

Mark Holmes

Friday, May 23rd, 2025

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Scout Space Wins Space Force Funding for GEO Space Domain Awareness

Rendering of Scout Space’s optical payload system. Photo: Scout Space

Scout Space has won a new contract from the U.S. Space Force to deliver a new GEO Geostationary Orbit (GEO) space awareness domain (SDA) sensor. The contract, worth $3.8 million, is a Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) Sequential Phase II contract by the USSF Space Systems Command (SSC) Space Safari Office, with $1.9 million coming from both SpaceWERX and Scout Space’s private match. Scout Space made the announcement May. 7. The TACFI program will enable Scout to expand its delivery of advanced SDA data and…

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