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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Sierra Space is designing its own satellite buses while using components from Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon subsidiary.
Raytheon won a contract as a prime contractor to produce seven Tranche 1 satellites for the Space Development Agency but later decided it could not meet the price targets and de-scoped much of the work.
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, will provide the cameras for the WorldView Legion satellites.
Raytheon has designed, built, and delivered four VIIRS instruments since 2010.
RTX’s expanded partnership with Space Foundation Discovery Center is part of RTX’s Connect Up initiative, a 10-year, $500,000,000 corporate social responsibility effort.
The Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 1 will not include seven satellites made by Raytheon Technologies as originally planned.
Congress increased the Space Development Agency’s 2023 budget by $250,000,000 specifically to pay for missile-tracking satellites, enabling the addition of seven Raytheon satellites as a fifth plane of the constellation.
Raytheon Technologies was awarded a $250,000,000 contract in March 2023 to build seven Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellites and provide ground operations and support services.
The $250,000,000 Tranche 1 contract with Raytheon Technologies is a fixed-price agreement that would place the supplier at risk of absorbing higher-than-expected overruns due to increased costs.
Mynaric was selected by Raytheon for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.
As president of Raytheon, Phil Jasper will be responsible for leading the business and its franchises in missile defense, air-to-air missiles, fire control radars, and electro-optical/infra-red systems.
Raytheon RTX is producing Tracking Layer Tranche 1 satellites under a separate contract.
Raytheon NORSS and intandem were selected to produce a 10-year strategy for the UK Space Agency's National Space Operations Centre.
SST data provided by Raytheon NORSS will expand and improve the United Kingdom’s sovereign space domain awareness capabilities.
The Space Surveillance and Tracking data provided by Raytheon NORSS will expand and improve the United Kingdom's sovereign space domain awareness capabilities.
Raytheon NORSS was awarded a contract to provide the UK Space Agency with Space Surveillance and Tracking services data in low-Earth orbit for Resident Space Objects.
Raytheon NORSS, a UK-based space domain specialist owned by RTX, was awarded a contract to provide the UK Space Agency with Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) services data in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for Resident Space Objects (RSO).
Raytheon NORSS and intandem were selected to produce a 10-year strategy for the UK Space Agency’s National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC).
Investors in Ursa Major’s Series D and D-1 funding rounds include Explorer 1 Fund and Eclipse, RTX Ventures, funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Exor Ventures, Mack & Co., XN, and other institutional shareholders.
Only Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon received development contracts with options to each produce up to three spacecraft for in-orbit demonstrations planned for late 2026.