Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer D

Falcon 9 Block 5

Jun 30, 12:00 AM UTC

Mission Elapsed Time

T-00:00:00

Webcast

Webcast will be available closer to launch

Mission Details

Tranche 1 Transport Layer D is one of six missions by the United States Space Force Space Development Agency (SDA) for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer constellation, which will provide assured, resilient, low-latency military data and connectivity worldwide to the full range of warfighter platforms from Low Earth Orbit satellites. The constellation will be interconnected with Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISLs) which have significantly increased performance over existing radio frequency crosslinks. It is expected to operate over Ka band, have stereo coverage and be dynamically networked for simpler hand-offs, greater bandwidth and fault tolerance.

Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Polar Orbit

Launch Site

Pad: Space Launch Complex 4E
Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Country: 🇺🇸 USA