Lockheed, SDA Advance to Production Phase of Transport Layer Satellite Program

Lockheed Martin has completed the critical design review for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer integrated ground and space system, advancing to the program’s production phase. The CDR included validation tests for supplier designs and a system optical communications terminal interoperability test. The program’s integration and testing phase now begins at a new small satellite processing facility, Lockheed said Monday.