The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded three American companies contracts, worth up to $1,774 million, to produce a constellation of 126 LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellites, for a space-based mesh satellite communications network. Each will produce 42 satellites by 2024, operating in two near-polar low Earth orbital planes (21 space vehicles, or satellites, for ...

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