RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies, is a major American aerospace and defense conglomerate. While the company has recently shifted its focus from being a prime contractor in the space field, it continues to supply critical payloads, sensors, and components for satellites and space missions. RTX's space-related products and services include satellite components, advanced sensors, missile defense systems, and space domain awareness technologies, with major customers including the U.S. government, NASA, and international allies. Keywords associated with RTX in the space industry include: space components, sensors, missile defense, space domain awareness, and government contracts.
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Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
CesiumAstro was selected by Raytheon Technologies to provide its Vireo active electronically scanned array RF communications payload for integration into seven space vehicles supporting the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Raytheon Technologies can integrate organic and third-party capability into the developing CTEN architecture.
Raytheon Technologies successfully demo’d the Common Tactical Edge Network developed by the company’s Collins Aerospace business.
Raytheon Technologies will develop an operational architecture for the Common Tactical Edge Network.
Raytheon Technologies demonstrated an adaptive convergence layer providing robust network connectivity across disparate systems using a mature DevSecOps digital engineering pipeline and a real-time battlefield emulator.
Raytheon Technologies has a long history integrating platform-agnostic systems for the military.
Raytheon Technologies has more than 30 National Security Agency-certified Multi-level Security and End Cryptographic Unit solutions fielded.
Raytheon Technologies has multiple interoperable aerial network waveforms in use.
Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.
Raytheon Technologies leverages its understanding of existing and emerging tactical datalinks and radios to create optimal networking solutions.
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, EO Vista, the University of Colorado Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, and Southwest Research Institute won $800,000 contracts to perform definition-phase studies of the coronagraph for the NOAA Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 mission.
Space Systems Command awarded each of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon a $30,000,000 contract on 2023-05-02 to develop prototypes of a ground system for the ESS program.
Raytheon’s wide-field-of-view infrared sensor developed for DARPA is 95% complete.
Raytheon competed for SDA Tranche 0 and Tranche 1 contracts in 2020 and 2021 and filed an unsuccessful protest challenging the Tranche 0 decision in 2020.
Blue Canyon Technologies is a Raytheon subsidiary that manufactures satellite buses.
The $250,000,000 Tracking Layer Tranche 1 award to Raytheon materialized because the Space Development Agency received an unplanned funding boost from Congress in the 2023 budget.
The Space Development Agency was especially interested in a wide-field-of-view infrared sensor that Raytheon developed for DARPA’s Blackjack program under a $37,000,000 contract awarded in 2020.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space is working to deliver the seven SDA satellites by 2025.
Raytheon Technologies won a $250,000,000 contract to build seven missile-detection satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency.