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Terran Orbital Announces New Business with Lockheed Martin to Build 36 Satellite Buses for SDA Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Beta Constellation

Terran Orbital Announces New Business with Lockheed Martin to Build 36 Satellite Buses for SDA Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Beta Constellation
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 13 Tranche 0 satellites lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. at 7:25 a.m. on Sept. 2 (U.S. Space Force Photo)

Terran Orbital [LLAP] said on Oct. 24 that it has received a Lockheed Martin [LMT] contract to build 36 satellite buses for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta constellation. Terran Orbital is also building 42 buses for Lockheed Martin for the SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer under a $700 million SDA contract to Lockheed Martin (Defense Daily, Feb. 28, 2022). SDA also awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] $692 million for 42 Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites and York…

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