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 completed thermal vacuum testing of its sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) GEO Block 0 missile warning satellites on 2022-01-27.
Lockheed Martin Space selected Raytheon Intelligence & Space as one of two teams to design a viable sensor payload for Next-Gen OPIR GEO Block 0.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space uses digital engineering to apply model correlation data from thermal vacuum testing in a simulation environment to demonstrate performance across mission threads from design to launch to post-delivery support.
Raytheon won a $197 million, five-year contract in 2020 to design the FORGE operating system.
In 2020 the Space Force selected Raytheon, General Atomics, and ASTRA Space to develop electro-optical infrared weather satellite concepts.
The Raytheon BBN-led team includes Smart Information Flow Technologies and Oregon State University.
Raytheon BBN's software assigns drones according to their capabilities to appropriate tasks.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space supported the fifth OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics DARPA program field exercise.
Raytheon BBN created a speech interface integrated with the Tactical Assault Kit to facilitate rapid operational response.
The exercise utilized integrated swarm technology developed by a Raytheon BBN-led team.
Raytheon BBN created a library of simple tactic building blocks to accomplish mission objectives using inexpensive hardware.
Raytheon BBN designed a scalable, modular, and decentralized approach to manage various platforms and missions.
Raytheon BBN developed a virtual reality interface to manage human swarm interactions and provide an interactive view of the environment.
Brad Tousley joined Raytheon Company in 2019 and has extensive experience in government agencies, the private sector, and the U.S. Military.
Brad Tousley was president of Raytheon BBN Technologies.
Kristin Robertson is joining Raytheon Intelligence & Space as president of the Space & C2 strategic business unit.
Raytheon will build its EWS prototype on a satellite bus made by Blue Canyon Technologies.
Raytheon Technologies received a $67,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Force to build a weather satellite to provide imagery of cloud cover and other data needed for military operations on 2021-12-15.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space was selected in June 2020 by the Space Force’s Space Systems Command as one of three contenders to develop space sensor prototypes for the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System (EWS).
Raytheon can deliver an EWS satellite ready for launch by 2025 if its design is selected for further development.