{"id":48879,"date":"2025-07-02T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sda-issues-solicitation-for-europa-experimentation-effort\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:00:52","slug":"sda-issues-solicitation-for-europa-experimentation-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sda-issues-solicitation-for-europa-experimentation-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"SDA Issues Solicitation for Europa Experimentation Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Space Development Agency<\/strong> (SDA) on July 1 released the Europa solicitation for prototype space vehicles, seeking proposals for advanced communication protocols, and commercial solutions based on government taskings.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation (T2DES) Europa program will provide lessons for future SDA constellations, the agency said. The procurement is limited to pre-screened vendors on the Hybrid Acquisition of Low-Earth Orbit (HALO) contract vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The T2DES Europa will award Other Transaction Agreements in two areas, advanced tactical waveforms, and commercial solutions. For the first track SDA wants proposals for a two-satellite demonstration. The agency previously said that Europa would \u201cprove the feasibility and scalability of more capable S-band waveforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tactical waveform effort would entail 12 to 18 months of development and testing, followed by at least a year of on-orbit testing. The spacecraft would be contractor owned and operated.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial solutions track would involve around six months of on-orbit demonstrations coming three to six months after contract award. The government would submit tasking and receive data products as a service, the solicitation says. The second track would also consist of contractor owned and operated assets.<\/p>\n<p>A notional schedule released by SDA says that offerors must submit executive summaries by July 28. SDA will use the summaries to pick a smaller pool of vendors whose proposals will be due by Aug. 29. Award decisions are expected by Oct. 14.<\/p>\n<p>SDA previously selected 19 companies to compete for work within HALO, a hybrid acquisition pool that allows the SDA to solicit prototypes and experimentations from non-traditional space companies.<\/p>\n<p>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Development Agency (SDA) on July 1 released the Europa solicitation for prototype space vehicles, seeking proposals for advanced communication protocols, and commercial solutions based on government taskings. The&nbsp;Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation (T2DES) Europa program will provide lessons for future SDA constellations, the agency said. The procurement is limited to pre-screened vendors on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}