The Space and Missile Systems Center in March dispatched the 6th and last AEHF satellite. SMC said it would read up options for a future satcom design.
As indicated by Space Force spending plan reports, the arrangement is to grant up to three serious fast prototyping contracts for ESS.
Northrop Grumman is Lockheed Martin's essential subcontractor for AEHF. The organization gives the correspondence payloads to all AEHF satellites. These payloads contain the handling, directing and control equipment and programming that play out the satellite's center interchanges mission.
Northrop Grumman likewise supplies the transport structures, heat pipes and sun oriented exhibit pivots for the AEHF satellites, just as fuel and pressurant tanks for the space apparatus.