{"id":49884,"date":"2025-01-09T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-lab-completes-preliminary-design-review-for-sda-t2tl-beta-satellites\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T13:12:23","slug":"rocket-lab-completes-preliminary-design-review-for-sda-t2tl-beta-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-lab-completes-preliminary-design-review-for-sda-t2tl-beta-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Completes Preliminary Design Review for SDA T2TL Beta Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocket Lab<\/strong> completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta layer satellites the company is building for the Space Development Agency (SDA), Rocket Lab announced Thursday. With the PDR completed, Rocket Lab now moves into the detailed design phase of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The SDA awarded Rocket Lab a $515 million contract in 2023 to build 18 satellites to will provide low-latency military data and connectivity as part of the part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). The award was notable for Rocket Lab because it was the company\u2019s first contract as a defense prime.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket Lab noted the PDR was a multi-day milestone covering the mission&nbsp;architecture, the space vehicle, launch, operations, and ground systems, along with planned integration and test activities, requirements, technology maturity plans, and overall operational concept.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis milestone underscores Rocket Lab\u2019s commitment to delivering world-class satellite solutions for national defense,\u201d said Brad Clevenger, president and CEO of the subsidiary Rocket Lab National Security LLC. \u201cOur vertically integrated approach and innovative technologies enable us to meet demanding requirements with precision and efficiency. With this achievement, we are one step closer to deploying advanced satellite systems that will strengthen U.S. defense capabilities in space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket Lab completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta layer satellites the company is building for the Space Development Agency (SDA), Rocket Lab announced Thursday. With the PDR completed, Rocket Lab now moves into the detailed design phase of the contract. The SDA awarded Rocket Lab a $515 million contract [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49885,"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-49884","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\/49884"}],"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=49884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}