{"id":52174,"date":"2023-12-15T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sda-goal-to-field-8-foo-fighter-satellite-constellation\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T16:20:14","slug":"sda-goal-to-field-8-foo-fighter-satellite-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sda-goal-to-field-8-foo-fighter-satellite-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"SDA Goal to Field 8 \u2018FOO Fighter\u2019 Satellite Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Space Development Agenc<\/strong>y (SDA) wants companies to submit proposals by Jan. 19 for a four to eight satellite constellation to detect\/track hypersonic and other advanced missiles of potential U.S. adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>The SDA\u2019s customary Other Transaction Authority agreement seeks \u201cthe design, fabrication and launch\u201d of four to eight satellites with electro-optical\/infrared (EO\/IR) sensors for the Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war constellation, termed FOO Fighter, or F2, by SDA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSDA plans to purchase and deploy 8 F2 SVs [space vehicles] with EO\/IR sensors with awards made to one or two vendors,\u201d according to a Dec. 1&nbsp;business notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe F2 system will accelerate the ability to provide fire-control in support of global detection, warning, and precision tracking of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems,\u201d SDA said. \u201cF2 will demonstrate advanced missile defense capability by incorporating fire control-quality sensors into a scalable prototype constellation. SDA may also acquire additional satellites and sensor payloads under awards resulting from this solicitation to inform requirements and constellation design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SDA said that one government launch will carry the prototype F2 constellation into orbit no later than the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n<p>DoD has said that it is shifting its focus from low numbers of geosynchronous orbit (GEO) missile warning\/missile tracking satellites to more numerous ones in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit in order to counter advanced missiles.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Epoch 1 and 2 efforts by the Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) may lead to 27 missile warning\/missile tracking satellites in MEO, and Space Force may field another 100 in LEO.<\/p>\n<p>SDA\u2019s Tracking Layer is to dovetail with SSC\u2019s Epoch. While SDA has two-year \u201cTranche\u201d development cycles, SSC has its own three-year \u201cEpochs.\u201d<\/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) wants companies to submit proposals by Jan. 19 for a four to eight satellite constellation to detect\/track hypersonic and other advanced missiles of potential U.S. adversaries. The SDA\u2019s customary Other Transaction Authority agreement seeks \u201cthe design, fabrication and launch\u201d of four to eight satellites with electro-optical\/infrared (EO\/IR) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49244,"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-52174","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\/52174"}],"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=52174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}