Mynaric announced that it has been selected by Raytheon Technologies to supply optical communications terminals for the Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Raytheon Technologies was . Each satellite will feature three optical communications terminals, and a Ka-band, multi-beam payload for communications.

Mynaric will supply 21 CONDOR Mk3 terminals to Raytheon for the program with the product deliveries expected in 2024. The Tranche 1 Tracking Layer will detect, identify, and track hypersonic weapons and other advanced missiles from their earliest stages of launch through interception. Once fully deployed, the low-Earth orbit constellation of networked satellites will become the fifth plane of satellites providing missile warning and tracking for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The program is a key element of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture . Mynaric will also supply optical communications terminals to the 14 satellites developed by Northrop Grumman for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. Mynaric's CONDOR family of optical communications terminal s is specifically designed for mass deployment as part of government and commercial satellite constellations.

It has previously been selected by Northrop Grumman for the SDA's Tranche 1 Transport Layer program, by Loft Federal for SDA's Experimental Testbed NExT , by Telesat for the DARPA Blackjack program and others. In addition, Mynaric was named a key development partner for Phase 1 of DARPA's Space-BACN program , was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to investigate optical technologies for next generation high-throughput optical inter-satellite links and was selected by the German government for multiple projects to develop quantum communication capabilities .