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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The Raytheon Technologies businesses at Project Convergence 22 demonstrated intelligent gateway technologies, zero-trust cybersecurity solutions, and an upgraded Multi-Functional Lightweight Command Launch Unit.
Raytheon selected the LM 400 bus to build missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Space Force with the first scheduled to launch in 2026.
Lockheed Martin will provide its mid-sized, rapidly-producible LM400 bus to Raytheon to support delivery of initial warfighting capability with Missile Track Custody Epoch 1.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space will serve as the prime contractor for MTC and will develop and deliver a space vehicle, a missile tracking mission payload, and ground-based command and control and mission-data processing elements.
During the initial 30-month effort Raytheon BBN will develop mission planning and C2 concepts, identify and develop initial rocket cargo workflows and processes, and design advanced human-machine interfaces based on cognitive engineering principles.
Raytheon BBN will leverage its experience developing and maintaining Department of Defense logistics and planning tools such as Analysis of Mobility Platform (AMP), Global Mission Scheduling (GMS), and Rapid Course of Action Tool (RCAT) to provide capability for the rocket cargo mission.
Raytheon BBN was awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop a rocket cargo mission planning and Command and Control system for the USAF.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space won a four-year, $8,700,000 contract on 2023-01-17 to develop mission planning software for the U.S. Air Force rocket cargo program.
Raytheon and L3Harris won contracts in 2021 valued at about $6,000,000 each to conduct studies of the GeoXO imager.
NASA awarded Ball Aerospace and Raytheon contracts in May, each valued at about $5 million, to perform definition-phase studies of the GeoXO atmospheric composition instrument.
Lockheed Martin is providing its mid-sized LM 400 bus to host a Raytheon infrared sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force’s first missile tracking capability at medium Earth orbit.
Under the contract, Raytheon Intelligence & Space will serve as prime contractor to develop and deliver a space vehicle hosting a missile tracking mission payload and ground-based command-and-control and mission-data processing elements for MTC.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s mission payload passed critical design review in November 2022 and will be integrated onto an LM 400 satellite bus.
Raytheon Technologies was formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses.
Raytheon Technologies’ businesses demonstrated intelligent gateway technologies, zero-trust cybersecurity solutions, and an upgraded Multi-Functional Lightweight Command Launch Unit at Project Convergence 22.
CTEN is a milestone for Raytheon Intelligence & Space to advance the U.S. Air Force's alignment with the DOD's JADC2 vision.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space will build upon previously developed advanced networking products for the CTEN project.
Raytheon Technologies is contributing capabilities in space systems, resilient communications, sensors, effectors, secure processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and mission software to the DOD JADC2 architecture.
Raytheon Technologies was selected as an industry partner for the U.S. Air Force's ABMS Digital Infrastructure Consortium.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space has been selected to develop a Common Tactical Edge Network (CTEN) for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System.