Mercury Systems is a technology company serving the aerospace and defense industries, acting as a manufacturer of open architecture computer hardware and software. They provide secure embedded processing modules, avionics mission computers, rugged servers, and trusted microelectronics for space applications. Mercury Systems has over 40 years of experience developing innovative, space-qualified products, including RF and microwave components, and solid-state data recorders, partnering with organizations like NASA and BlueHalo (for U.S. Space Force programs). Their products are utilized in satellite communications, launch vehicles, and programs like the Mars Rovers and EMIT.
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The Mercury Transfer Module’s electric thrusters will operate below the minimum thrust required for insertion into Mercury orbit in December 2025.
The initial operation of the MTSS was envisioned for 1970 as a follow-on to the Mercury and Dyna-Soar programs.
USS Randolph had previously participated in Mercury spacecraft recoveries.
USS Hornet recovered astronauts during Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.
The Mercury Processing Platform provides edge-ready products designed to enable on-orbit data processing that turns sensor data into decisions.
Mercury Systems was awarded a $31,000,000 contract from L3Harris Technologies to provide solid-state data recorders for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite constellation.
Mercury Systems operates 24 locations worldwide.
Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) was awarded a $31,000,000 contract by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) to provide solid-state data recorders for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite constellation.
Mercury Systems is providing the primary data storage devices for all three of L3Harris’s Tracking Layer constellations.
Mercury Systems has a $31,000,000 contract dated 2024-04-10 to supply solid-state data recorders to L3Harris Technologies for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 2.
NASA astronauts named their spacecraft in a practice that began with the Mercury program and continued through Apollo.
Mercury Systems co-developed a space-qualified processing board for field-programmable gate arrays with Ball Aerospace.
GEOST will provide Sierra Space with 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads for Tracking Layer Tranche 2.
GEOST will deliver mission processing solutions integrated with its Mercury and Phoenix payloads for the SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 2 satellites.
GEOST will provide Sierra Space with 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads for the SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 2 program.
Scientific data from Discovery missions has expanded knowledge from Mercury to the main asteroid belt.
Geost was selected by Sierra Space to provide 18 infrared payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 satellites, consisting of 16 Mercury missile warning and missile tracking payloads and two Phoenix fire control payloads.
The proposed Mercury reconnaissance system could achieve approximately 1.5-meter ground resolution and operate for three days in orbit.
In June 1960, Hycon Corporation proposed a reconnaissance system using a Mercury spacecraft with a Hycon camera system to the CIA.
Launch Complex 14 was the launch site of NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 6 flight in 1962.