{"id":51565,"date":"2024-03-29T18:31:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T10:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sda-lays-out-tranche-2-transport-layer-gamma-plan\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T10:31:28","slug":"sda-lays-out-tranche-2-transport-layer-gamma-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sda-lays-out-tranche-2-transport-layer-gamma-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"SDA Lays Out Tranche 2, Transport Layer-Gamma Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>\u2019s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a&nbsp;solicitation&nbsp;this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the T2TL series.<\/p>\n<p>The T2TL Alpha and Beta satellites, which are to begin launches in September 2026, are to have three optical communications terminals (OCTs), and the Gamma satellites are to add a fourth OCT and a classified \u201cWarlock\u201d mission payload. The T2TL-Gamma satellites are to launch by June 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The SDA\u2019s aim is to build a Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) with low-cost communications and missile tracking satellites, having standardized, \u201ccommodity\u201d buses for use on different missions. The optically-linked satellites are to be the linchpin of DoD Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery T2TL-Gamma SV [space vehicle] will be interoperable with all PWSA Transport Layer SVs, regardless of vendor,\u201d SDA\u2019s Gamma solicitation said. \u201cThe T2TL-Gamma SVs will include OCTs to support in-plane and cross-plane links, links to terrestrial OCTs (ground, air, and maritime), and links to compatible SVs external to the Transport Layer. The T2TL SVs, in conjunction with the SDA OCs and the T1TL SVs, will form a communications network that will provide resilient, low-latency, high throughput data transfer to and from any location on the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, SDA announced an up to $515 million award to Rocket Lab for the T2TL-Beta satellite \u2014 an award that would bring the total planned T2TL-Beta constellation to 90, including 72 Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman satellites.<\/p>\n<p>While the 18 Rocket Lab USA&nbsp;satellites for SDA\u2019s T2TL-Beta layer are to have standard tactical satellite communications&nbsp; links, the Gamma birds are to come with advanced tactical data links.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier T2TL-Alpha satellites are to transmit beyond line-of-sight Link 16 data to military forces from space, while T2TL-Beta satellites are to transmit over Ultra High Frequency S-band for tactical satellite communications.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a&nbsp;solicitation&nbsp;this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the T2TL series. The T2TL Alpha and Beta satellites, which are to begin launches in September 2026, are to have three optical communications terminals (OCTs), and the Gamma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49660,"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-51565","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\/51565"}],"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=51565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}