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 Intelligence & Space plans to shift from competing as a mission prime to acting as a merchant supplier providing satellite buses and payloads to other prime contractors.
The seven satellites Raytheon is building will be part of the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer, a low Earth orbit network designed to track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
DARPA decided not to place Raytheon’s wide-field-of-view infrared sensor on its Blackjack satellites, and the sensor will be provided to the Space Development Agency as government-furnished equipment.
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) was awarded a $237,000,000 U.S. Army contract for Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors (KuRFS) and Coyote effectors to detect and defeat unmanned aircraft.
Loft Orbital previously ordered satellites from LeoStella, Raytheon, and another company that Loft declined to disclose.
Raytheon acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in 2020, a Colorado-based smallsat manufacturer founded in 2008.
Raytheon Technologies received an award valued at more than $250,000,000 to design, develop, and deliver a seven-vehicle missile tracking satellite constellation and to support launch and ground operations for the Space Development Agency.
Raytheon Technologies acquired Blue Canyon Technologies and SEAKR Engineering and expanded its space payload and satellite bus capabilities and expertise.
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) received an award valued at more than $250,000,000 to design, develop, and deliver a seven-vehicle missile tracking satellite constellation for the Space Development Agency.
Since acquiring Blue Canyon Technologies and SEAKR Engineering, Raytheon Technologies expanded its space payload and satellite bus capabilities and expertise.
The satellites will carry a wide-field-of-view overhead persistent infrared sensor developed by Raytheon and an electronics payload provided by Raytheon subsidiary SEAKR Engineering.
Raytheon originally bid for a Tracking Layer contract in 2020 but lost that contract to other competitors.
The Space Development Agency awarded Raytheon Technologies a $250,000,000 contract to build seven missile-tracking satellites for the agency’s low Earth orbit constellation on 2023-03-02.
The seven Raytheon-built satellites will be part of the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 1 infrared-sensing constellation.
Dave Broadbent, president of space & C2 at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, supports developing a resilient and affordable proliferated satellite constellation in low Earth orbit to improve tracking of emerging threats like hypersonic missiles.
Tracking Layer Tranche 1 will include 14 satellites made by Northrop Grumman and 14 satellites made by L3Harris in addition to Raytheon’s seven satellites.
The seven satellites under the $250,000,000 contract will be built on Saturn-class microsatellite buses made by Raytheon subsidiary Blue Canyon Technologies.
The $250,000,000 contract from the Space Development Agency to Raytheon includes ground operations and support services.
The consortium has worked with Fujitsu and Raytheon NORSS on several government-funded Space Surveillance Tracking projects.
Defense giants Raytheon and L3 Harris have established venture capital arms to capture emerging technology.