{"id":53515,"date":"2023-05-03T01:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/loft-federal-orders-mynaric-lasercom-terminals-for-sda-testbed\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:23:53","slug":"loft-federal-orders-mynaric-lasercom-terminals-for-sda-testbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/loft-federal-orders-mynaric-lasercom-terminals-for-sda-testbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Loft Federal Orders Mynaric Lasercom Terminals for SDA Testbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Mynaric<\/b> has a new customer \u2014 <b>Loft Federal<\/b>, the government subsidiary of <strong>Loft Orbital<\/strong>, which ordered Mynaric laser terminals for its work on the<b> Space Development Agency<\/b>\u2019s (SDA) Experimental Testbed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The companies announced Tuesday that Loft Federal ordered Mynaric CONDOR Mk3 terminals, \u200b\u200bwith deliveries\u200b mostly scheduled for the first half of 2024\u200b. \u200bMynaric received the order in late 2022 and previously counted it in its optical communications terminal backlog at the end of the year. The Mk3 is the next-generation Mynaric optical communications terminal for spacecraft after Mk2, and it is compatible with the SDA\u2019s interoperability standard for lasercom terminals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Loft Federal announced last month that it will integrate the spacecraft platform for Ball Aerospace\u2019s SDA Experimental Testbed, or NExT, contract. The NExT testbed is not part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche architecture, but will demonstrate low-latency data transport and beyond line-of-sight command and control.<\/p>\n<p>SDA awarded Ball Aerospace the NExT contract in October 2022, to build 10 satellites and accompanying ground systems \u2014 worth up to $176 million.<\/p>\n<p>Loft Federal will perform spacecraft integration and testing, procure commercial launch services, oversee the launch campaign, and operate the constellation on orbit. The constellation will use the Longbow satellite platform procured from Airbus OneWeb Satellites, based on the OneWeb satellite bus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200bThe CONDOR Mk3 terminal enables us to provide reliable performance on Longbow, our turnkey satellite platform,\u201d \u200bsaid \u200bJohn Eterno, general manager at Loft Federal\u200b. \u200b\u201cBy using technologies like these that are commercial and produced at scale, we can deliver fast and simple operations on orbit for SDA NExT.\u201d\u200b\u200b &nbsp; &nbsp; \u200b<\/p>\n<p>Mynaric is also supplying lasercom terminals to Northrop Grumman for the SDA\u2019s Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mynaric has a new customer \u2014 Loft Federal, the government subsidiary of Loft Orbital, which ordered Mynaric laser terminals for its work on the Space Development Agency\u2019s (SDA) Experimental Testbed.&nbsp; The companies announced Tuesday that Loft Federal ordered Mynaric CONDOR Mk3 terminals, \u200b\u200bwith deliveries\u200b mostly scheduled for the first half of 2024\u200b. \u200bMynaric received the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47153,"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-53515","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\/53515"}],"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=53515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}