A piece of a massive government funding bill will be used to increase the number of satellites and the Space Development Agency.
The Senate and the House passed a bill on Thursday and Friday that would fund the government for the rest of the year. The Defense Department received more money than it did in the previous year. According to estimates by the consulting firm Velos, the Pentagon requested more than the actual amount.
The Space Force had received less than this. The Space Force was allocated 18.05 billion dollars by Congress last year.
The sixth branch of the US military is now called the Space Force. The U.S. Army transferred its satellite ground stations to the Space Force and the government is looking to rely more on commercial partnerships to build satellite constellations. Much of the funding will go towards satellites.
According to SpaceNews, more than half a billion dollars of the budget will be spent on the SDA. The Space Force transferred the SDA to develop a constellation of small satellites. In areas such as communications, data transport, and missile warning and tracking, SBA programs will be an important part of the space architecture.
With the help of commercially developed technologies, the government was able to establish the SDA. The launch of missile tracking and data relay satellites was supposed to take place this year, but it was delayed several times.
A wide-band communications satellite is going to be built from the budget. It wasn't clear whether the funding would go towards the Wideband Global SATCOM system that's already being built.
The White House stated that space is vital to U.S. national security. The budget maintains America's advantage by improving the resilience of U.S. space architectures.
There was a recent space force training exercise that included live fire.
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