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SDA Expects To Begin To Get Data From L3Harris Tracking Satellites In Late May

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 15th, 2024

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SDA Expects To Begin To Get Data From L3Harris Tracking Satellites In Late May

The Space Development Agency's notional space layer architecture as outlined by new director Fred Kennedy April 9, 2019. Image: Vivienne Machi/Staff

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The Space Development Agency (SDA) in late May plans to begin gathering test data from four L3Harris Technologies [LHX] satellites the agency launched in February as part of a demonstration constellation for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), SDA Director Derek Tournear said last week. The L3Harris missile tracking satellites that are part of Tranche 0 of the PWSA are still going through testing and checkout, Tournear said on April 10 during a media briefing at the Space…

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