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SpaceWatch GlobalJoshua Faleti

Rocket Lab Clears Critical Design Review for SDA’s T2TL-Beta LEO Comms Constellation

Rocket Lab National Security LLC has passed the Space Development Agency’s Critical Design Review for its Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta program, confirming the Lightning-based spacecraft meet all mission parameters and greenlighting full-scale production of an 18-satellite low-latency defense communications network.

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