Falcon 9 Block 5 | SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
No earlier than Sep 30, 2026
Launch Library's precision for this date: Month, so no time is shown.
STATUS
To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.
MISSION
- Mission
- SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer A
- Type
- Government/Top Secret
- Orbit
- Polar Orbit (PO)
Tranche 1 Transport Layer A 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. This launch carries 21 satellites manufactured by Northrop Grumman.
ROCKET AND PROVIDER
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Provider
- SpaceX (commercial)
- On SpaceDew
- SpaceX
Source: Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs), record updated Aug 27, 2026, 16:00 UTC. Times are UTC. Every launch SpaceDew tracks