CHEDDAR NEWS / Charles Beames, executive chair of York Space Systems, joined Cheddar to discuss the company’s expansion of its ground facility in Denver, Colorado.

SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY / SDA announced August 31 two contract awards for the first generation of the Transport Layer. These awards represent one of the first major and highly visible steps toward developing the National Defense Space Architecture’s inaugural tranche (called Tranche 0).

SPACE NEWS / SAN FRANCISCO – York Space Systems has learned a lot from operating its first production-model spacecraft in orbit for two years. The biggest takeaway, though, has been the need to automate satellite handling on the ground.

SPACENEWS / WASHINGTON - Lockheed Martin received a $187.5 million contract and York Space Systems a $94 million contract for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.

SPACE NEWS / TAMPA, Fla. — Smallsat specialist York Space Systems is producing a larger satellite platform with double the payload volume of its current spacecraft bus in response to market demand.

SPACENEWS / SAN FRANCISCO - Australian Earth observation startup LatConnect 60 announced plans June 9 to hire York Space Systems to manufacture small satellites and to operate its Earth observation constellation.