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Mercury Systems, a technology company that delivers mission-critical processing power to the edge, announced it was awarded a $31 million contract from L3Harris Technologies to provide solid-state data recorders<\/strong> for the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)\u2019s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite constellation.<\/p>\n L3Harris was selected in January to design and build 18 satellites that will provide near-global missile warning and tracking coverage, with preliminary missile defense, under SDA\u2019s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program. The Tracking Layer<\/strong> is part of SDA\u2019s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a layered network of military satellites supporting multiple missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Tranche 2 follows the 16-satellite constellation L3Harris is building for Tranche 1, and the four recently launched satellites it built for the Tranche 0.<\/p>\n Mercury\u2019s solid-state data recorders (SSDRs) are the primary storage devices on all three L3Harris constellations. These radiation-tolerant devices enable on-orbit sensor data processing and storage in a 3U VPX form factor, with a microprocessor and software-free design that ensures precise, long-term operation in harsh environments. Mercury SSDRs have a proven spaceflight heritage, powering missions such as NASA\u2019s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation science mission that is currently in operation aboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are extremely proud to provide the on-orbit data storage capabilities for this important national security mission,\u201d said Tom Smelker<\/strong>, GM of Mercury\u2019s Microsystems business unit. \u201cThe Mercury Processing Platform brings unique advantages to the space domain, with edge-ready products that turn data into decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n Click here to view other Solid-State Data Recorders listed on SatNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mercury Systems, a technology company that delivers mission-critical processing power to the edge, announced it was awarded a $31 million contract from L3Harris Technologies to provide solid-state data recorders for the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA)\u2019s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite constellation. L3Harris was selected in January to design and build 18 satellites that will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036"}],"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=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}