Sierra Space Successfully Completes Critical Design Review for Missile …
Sep 29, 2025 · Under this contract, Sierra Space will deliver two orbital planes of satellites—18 in total—equipped with state-of-the-art infrared sensors to detect and track ballistic, hypersonic, …
How the SDA’s Satellite Swarm Will Track Hypersonic Missiles …
A satellite constellation specially suited to tracking hypersonic missiles could be up and running by 2025. Director of the Space Development Agency Derek M. Tournear laid out the advantages …
Funding for SDA's next missile tracking contracts diverted to …
Nov 10, 2025 · WASHINGTON — The Space Development Agency’s plan to award new contracts this month for its next set of missile warning/missile tracking satellites is in limbo, having fallen …
Proliferating Space-Based Missile Tracking To Defeat
Feb 18, 2025 · The T2 Tracking Layer will accelerate the capability to provide global, persistent indications, detection, warning, tracking, and identification of conventional and advanced …
US Department of Defense Launches L3Harris Missile Tracking …
Feb 14, 2024 · “L3Harris delivered this advanced missile tracking capability on behalf of MDA and SDA on orbit in just over three years after work was authorized to proceed. We are proud to be …
MDA, SDA Announce Upcoming Launch of the Hypersonic and Ballistic …
Feb 14, 2024 · Today's planned launch will include two satellites for MDA's Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) and the final four SDA Tranche 0 (T0) Tracking …
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin has noted that “hypersonic targets are 10 to 20 times dimmer than what the U.S. normally tracks by satellites …
New U.S. Hypersonic Missile Tracking Satellite Was Successfully …
Jun 17, 2024 · A week after the preliminary announcement, the US Missile Defence Agency (MDA) tested the latest hypersonic missile satellite detection system. The Space Development …
L3Harris advances its latest US missile defence designs to the ...
Aug 7, 2025 · L3Harris and the US Space Development Agency (SDA) have achieved the critical design review and production readiness review for SDA’s Tranche 2 (T2) Tracking Layer, …
Report to Congress Hypersonic Missile Defense - USNI News
A March 2025 MDA and U.S. Navy test demonstrated that HBTSS data could “detect, track, and perform a simulated engagement” of a maneuvering hypersonic target.