Falcon 9 • SDA’s Tranche 1 Transporter Layer-C

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second batch of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to low Earth orbit. The shorthand for this mission is T1TL-C. A $1.8 billion contract was awarded across York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin Space and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems to establish a constellation of 126 “optically-interconnected space vehicles.” These 21 satellites were from Lockheed Martin. The Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1093, launching for a seventh time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.