What SDA’s latest win signals for military space

The Space Development Agency’s experimental satellite program just kicked off with a record-fast shift into full operating mode, offering what officials see as a promising start for an ambitious military space strategy.The Dragoon spacecraft, launched June 23, is the first of 12 planned satellites developed as part of SDA’s Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System, or T1DES. With Dragoon, the program aims to demonstrate the mission viability of what’s slated to encomp