{"id":108199,"date":"2025-12-24T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108199\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:21:06","slug":"redondo-beach-long-beach-companies-to-work-on-1-6-billion-in-space-force-missile-tracking-projects-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/108199\/","title":{"rendered":"Redondo Beach, Long Beach companies to work on $1.6 billion in Space Force missile tracking projects \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Satellite builders in Redondo Beach and Long Beach will work on $1.6 billion in projects with the U.S. Space Force<\/a> to continue developing its missile tracking satellite network, the U.S. Space Development Agency announced recently.<\/p>\n

Northrop Grumman<\/a> in Redondo Beach and Rocket Lab USA in Long Beach were awarded the contracts, worth $1.6 billion, to build missile warning, tracking and defense satellite sensors for the U.S. Space Development Agency\u2019s communication satellite network for homeland defense, called the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of a total $3.5 billion agreement with the Space Development Agency and four companies in California and Indiana to create 72 space vehicles for the low-orbit, tracking layer \u201cconstellation\u201d of the third limb of the satellite network, which is set to launch in 2029.<\/p>\n

The Space Development Agency is a unit of the U.S Space Force that deploys disruptive space technology that makes space sector operations cheaper, faster and more autonomous.<\/p>\n

The Redondo Beach company has a $764 million agreement to build missile warning and tracking infrared sensors, and the Long Beach company has an $805 million agreement for missile warning, tracking and defense sensors, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n

The missile tracking satellites began launching in 2024 and will continue in phases, with the second set to begin in 2027 and a third in 2029, according to SDA documents, the latter of which the local companies are working on. The entire network is made of hundreds of small satellites in low-earth orbit for quick and resilient military communication.<\/p>\n

The satellites are meant to provide continuous global coverage for missile warning and tracking, the announcement said, supporting the Space Force\u2019s defense missions to pace evolving threats in space.<\/p>\n

Companies Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale and L3Harris Technologies in Fort Wayne, Indiana, will also build and operate the satellites, per the SDA\u2019s announcement, with those companies awarded $1.1 billion and $843 million in contracts, respectively. Each, including Northrop Grumman and Rocket Lab USA, will build 18 satellites, the announcement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Satellite builders in Redondo Beach and Long Beach will work on $1.6 billion in projects with the U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[141,32309,7,405,767,131,133,132,137,100,17822,58209],"class_list":["post-108199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-aerospace","tag-beach-cities","tag-california","tag-government","tag-local-business","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-redondo-beach","tag-top-stories-tbr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}