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Space

York Space Systems, Terran Orbital Win SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer Awards

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, August 16th, 2024

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York Space Systems, Terran Orbital Win SDA Tranche 2 Transport Layer Awards

Terran Orbital's Bus 1 satellite bus it has provided Lockheed Martin as part of the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 0. Photo: Terran Orbital

The Space Development Agency (SDA) last Friday awarded contracts to York Space Systems and Terran Orbital [LLAP] to supply 10 communications satellites each for the second tranche of the agency’s space architecture. Launch of the Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Gamma satellites is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2027. The $254 million award to Terran is the company’s first as a prime contractor under SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The small company also supplies…

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