
Last November, Derek Tournear, the director of the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA), said that SDA was working to resolve delayed deliveries of microelectronics and space system components for Moog, Inc. [MOG-A]-built satellite buses for L3Harris' [LHX] four Tranche 0 Tracking Layer satellites to allow a launch of those satellites this spring. The first Tranche 0 launch--of eight York Space Systems Transport Layer communications satellites and two SpaceX Tracking Layer satellites for missile warning and tracking--occurred on April…