The U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded Mercury Systems, a technology company that provides mission-critical processing power to the edge, a $31 million contract to supply solid-state data recorders for the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite constellation. L3Harris Technologies made this announcement today.
Under SDA’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program, L3Harris was chosen in January to design and construct eighteen satellites that will offer near-global missile warning and tracking coverage, along with basic missile defence. SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a tiered network of military satellites serving numerous missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), includes the Tracking Layer.
Tranche 2 is the continuation of Tranche 1’s 16-satellite constellation and the four newly launched satellites that were developed for Tranche 0 by L3Harris.
Tom Smelker, general manager of Mercury’s Microsystems business unit, stated, “We are extremely proud to provide the on-orbit data storage capabilities for this important national security mission.” “With edge-ready products that transform data into decisions, the Mercury Processing Platform offers distinct advantages to the space domain.”
Customers may leverage cutting-edge capabilities from silicon to system scale with the Mercury Processing Platform, transforming data into decisions on critical timescales. A wide range of applications in mission computing, sensor processing, command and control, and communications are made possible by Mercury’s products and solutions, which are used in more than 300 programs and 35 nations.
