
The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency (SDA) wants industry help to develop the agency's Transport Layer Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation System (T2DES) satellites for first launch in September 2026. SDA "seeks U.S. corporation industry feedback on advanced tactical datalink and waveform maturity, on-going work with other U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) agencies on datalinks and waveforms, and integrating datalinks and waveforms on future tranches of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA)," SDA said on Nov. 14. "This would…