Aboard Commercial Rocket, Space Defense Agency Sends up Satellites for First Time
The Falcon 9 mission will include five Space Defense agency (SDA) satellites. These include a pair of “Mandrake II” satellites; two “Laser Interconnect Networking Communications System,” or LINCS, satellites; and a satellite carrying the SDA’s Prototype On-orbit Experimental Testbed, or POET, experiment. The SDA is working now on delivering the National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA),…