Space Development Agency confirms Rocket Lab will produce 18 satellites for U.S. military network

Rocket Lab USA, based in Long Beach , California , is awarded $515 million contract.

Rocket Lab will build and operate 18 spacecraft that will be part of a low Earth orbit network of military satellites.

SDA , an organization under the U.S. Space Force , is building a mesh network of.

military satellites known as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture .

The Transport Layer will be made up of communications satellites.