Pentagon's Space Development Agency Launches First Satellites as Pentagon Plans Shutdown

The Pentagon's Space Development Agency launched its first batches of operational satellites on July 17, as the Pentagon plans to shutter the semi-autonomous agency and fold it back into the Space Force's procurement pipeline. Established in 2019 to accelerate US military space system deployment by bypassing traditional Pentagon bureaucracy, the SDA was designed to rapidly develop a constellation of hundreds of missile warning and data relay satellites in low-Earth orbit. The agency's closure is backed by lawmakers in both houses of Congress in drafts of this year's National Defense Authorization Act. The SDA's missile-warning and data-relay mission will continue within the US Space Force as part of the Pentagon's planned Golden Dome missile shield.
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