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Space

Space Force Selects Five Companies To Help Leverage Commercial Satellites As Part Of SDN

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, August 13th, 2026

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Space Force Selects Five Companies To Help Leverage Commercial Satellites As Part Of SDN

York Space Systems' T1TL full stack of 21 satellites. Photo: York Space Systems

The Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded contracts worth up to $60 million across five vendors to ensure different commercial satellites can interoperate with the future Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone that SpaceX [SPCX] will launch into low Earth orbit as a proliferated satellite constellation. The awards Other Transaction Authority agreements were awarded to Amazon’s [AMZN] Amazon LEO for Government, Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC], Rocket Lab [RKLB] and York Space Systems [YSS]. The SDN effort is…

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