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SDA Trying to Resolve Anomalies on LINCS Demonstration Microsatellites

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SDA Trying to Resolve Anomalies on LINCS Demonstration Microsatellites
The S.S. Ellison Onizuka cargo ship, part of Northrop Grumman’s NG-16 Cygnus mission, arrived this month at the International Space Station (ISS). The Space Development Agency is conducting a demonstration with the Missile Defense Agency and Northrop Grumman aboard Cygnus (NASA Photo)

As the Space Development Agency (SDA) prepares to release a solicitation for Tranche 1 of the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA) on Aug. 30, the agency is also working to establish command and control of two General Atomics Laser Interconnect Networking Communications System (LINCS) microsatellites that are to demonstrate optical space-to-space and space-to-air communications links--the latter next year with a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone. The two LINCS microsatellites are "the only ones [of the SDA satellites launched so far] that…

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