{"id":49882,"date":"2025-01-09T17:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/york-space-systems-reports-inter-vendor-link-with-spacex-bird-in-the-pwsa\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:52:11","slug":"york-space-systems-reports-inter-vendor-link-with-spacex-bird-in-the-pwsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/york-space-systems-reports-inter-vendor-link-with-spacex-bird-in-the-pwsa\/","title":{"rendered":"York Space Systems Reports Inter-Vendor Link with SpaceX Bird in the PWSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A question mark for the U.S. Space Force <strong>Space Development Agency<\/strong>\u2019s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) has been whether one company\u2019s satellites would link with other companies\u2019 birds, but Denver\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>York Space Systems<\/strong> said on Thursday that it has demonstrated \u201cthe first Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) inter-vendor laser communication link\u201d for the PWSA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis groundbreaking achievement connected a Tranche 0 Transport satellite built by York with a Tranche 0 Tracking satellite built by&nbsp;<strong>SpaceX<\/strong>, representing a significant milestone in space-based communication,\u201d York said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Top Trump adviser and co-chair of the soon to be Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Elon Musk is the billionaire founder and CEO of SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis demonstration realizes another important step in SDA\u2019s achieving its vision of an extensible and proliferated constellation built by multiple vendors to a common interface standard,\u201d York Space said on Thursday. \u201cSuccessfully closing this laser communication link between vendors and across two network layers and orbital inclinations validates SDA\u2019s decision to adopt a standardized optical communication terminal (OCT) protocol to enhance interoperability. By enabling seamless communication across platforms, this approach ensures interoperability, enhances a competitive marketplace and fosters innovation across the entire space industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like SpaceX, York\u2019s optical terminals are supplied by&nbsp;<strong>Tesat<\/strong>&nbsp;on the Tranche 0 spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>SDA Director Derek Tournear has said that the risk was low that&nbsp;optical terminals between SpaceX and York spacecraft would not communicate, as the links must meet the interfaces and standards set by SDA. In addition, the companies have had to demonstrate their respective links on the Naval Research Laboratory\u2019s optical and networking testbed, Tournear said in September.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question mark for the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency\u2019s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) has been whether one company\u2019s satellites would link with other companies\u2019 birds, but Denver\u2019s&nbsp;York Space Systems said on Thursday that it has demonstrated \u201cthe first Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) inter-vendor laser communication link\u201d for the PWSA. \u201cThis groundbreaking achievement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49883,"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-49882","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\/49882"}],"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=49882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}