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 collaborates with various partners to tackle mission challenges in space domain awareness and tactical mission control.
Raytheon aims to deliver critical information to the tactical edge faster than ever before.
Melinda Milani is Raytheon's Area Director of its National and Tactical System strategic business unit.
Space Systems Command received the first mission payload for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous (NGG) sensing capability on 2024-08-30 in partnership with Lockheed Martin Space and Raytheon Technologies Corporation.
The NGG-1 payload was transported from Raytheon’s Mission Payload Facility in El Segundo, California to Lockheed Martin’s Space Vehicle Integration Facility in Sunnyvale, California following thermal vacuum chamber testing completed between 2024-04-26 and 2024-08-12.
General Dynamics Mission Systems, collaborating with Iridium Communications, KSAT, and Raytheon Technologies, will develop and maintain two primary operations centers at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, and Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Raytheon Technologies a $51,700,000 contract to develop satellite communications antennas for military aircraft.
Raytheon, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems are developing antennas and supporting technologies to provide military users access to commercial internet services in low, medium, and geostationary orbits using a common set of user terminal hardware.
The WorldView Legion satellites are equipped with optical instruments from RTX’s Raytheon that deliver high-resolution 0.3 m-class imagery.
Raytheon entered a strategic partnership with Italian aerospace firm Avio on 2024-07-23 to develop solid rocket motors for military applications and help address shortages in the U.S. defense industrial base.
In 2020, the U.S. Space Force selected General Atomics, Orion Space Solutions, and Raytheon Technologies to design a prototype Electro-Optical Weather System satellite.
Raytheon is developing the mission payloads for the Next-Gen OPIR geosynchronous satellites.
Raytheon is an RTX business that has developed technologies for more than 100 years in integrated air and missile defense, smart weapons, missiles, advanced sensors and radars, interceptors, space-based systems, hypersonics, and missile defense.
Raytheon, an RTX business, developed an advanced ground system for space-based missile warning that is operational at the U.S. Space Force’s Overhead Persistent Infrared Battlespace Awareness Center (OBAC).
RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and operates through businesses including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.
Raytheon designed and built a next-generation digital focal plane array for WorldView Legion to provide high-resolution multispectral images.
The WorldView Legion optical instrument is provided by Raytheon and delivers 0.3 m-class imagery.
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, will provide the cameras for the WorldView Legion satellites.
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, will provide the cameras for the WorldView Legion satellites.
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, will provide the cameras for the WorldView Legion satellites.