A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Oct. 16, 2025. The rocket carried 21 satellites, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, to low Earth ...

The Air Force will send an inspection team to Space Development Agency facilities to comb through records and interview employees, according to a memo obtained by Defense One, amid growing concerns ...

The Space Development Agency was established in 2019 to help speed up the deployment of US military space systems by sidestepping the Pentagon’s traditional sluggish bureaucracy. Seven years later, ...

The Pentagon, for decades, has spent the bulk of its massive space budget on traditional geostationary satellites. The four-year-old Space Development Agency (SDA) is working to break the mold with an ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The Space Development Agency for the first time in six years has new leadership. The Space Force agency named Gurpartap “GP” Sandhoo, Ph.D., as its acting director in ...

The Space Development Agency announced in October 2020 the award of two contracts to build satellites for the tracking layer of the National Defense Space Architecture. (Space Development Agency) ...

WASHINGTON — When the Pentagon established the Space Development Agency five years ago, it encountered fierce resistance from stalwarts of the military’s traditional satellite programs. The agency had ...

The Space Development Agency is charged with fielding hundreds of missile tracking and data transport satellites, the first of which are expected to be operational by 2026. (Space Development Agency) ...