The company has flight heritage in GEO from three previous GEO missions, including the Lockheed Martin LINUSS mission.
Terran Orbital
The contract will integrate payloads onto the space vehicle platforms to support specific US Space Force missions.
Gingiss was Chief Operating Officer of Virgin Orbit and had been with the company since 2021.
The agreement brings together Rivada’s LEO satellite network and OKAPI:Orbits’ Space Traffic Management SaaS solution.
The satellites will combine inter-satellite links with advanced onboard data routers to create an optical backbone in space.
Terran Orbital will continue to support Lockheed Martin for the NDSA, with a contract to build 42 satellites for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
The Tranche 1 Transport Layer is a mesh network of optically interconnected satellites for a data transport system.
