L3Harris Technologies is an American technology company, defense contractor, and information technology services provider serving government, defense, and commercial sectors. Within the space industry, L3Harris specializes in providing end-to-end satellite solutions, including spacecraft, payloads, and ground software, and is a key player in space domain awareness. They develop and manufacture space-qualified components like traveling wave tubes, reflectors, and optical systems, and they also contribute to missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and Artemis II. L3Harris partners with organizations like NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and the Missile Defense Agency.
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The Space Development Agency has awarded L3Harris contracts under the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture that collectively include 38 satellites across Tranche 0, Tranche 1, and Tranche 2.
In January 2024 L3Harris received a $919,000,000 contract from the Space Development Agency to design and build 18 space vehicles with infrared payloads for the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer.
L3Harris’ Tranche 2 space vehicles include infrared payloads designed to detect, track, and target hypersonic threats.
L3Harris Technologies completed Preliminary Design Review for the development of 18 space vehicles for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program.
L3Harris is designing and building 16 missile-tracking satellites for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer constellation slated to launch in 2025.
L3Harris Technologies conducted a Critical Design Review for 45 mission payload (MPL) radios and 40 CXK-1000 radios they are designing, developing, and producing in support of Lockheed Martin Space’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta contract with the Space Development Agency.
In early 2024, the Space Development Agency awarded L3Harris a $919,000,000 contract to develop 18 infrared space vehicles for the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer to provide near-global missile warning and tracking coverage.
In early 2024, four missile-tracking satellites designed and built by L3Harris launched into orbit as part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 Tracking Layer program.
L3Harris is undertaking efforts to expand Link 16 access capability to space-borne assets.
L3Harris completed its acquisition of the Link 16 Tactical Data Links product line in January 2023.
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) received an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract from the U.S. Navy worth up to $999,000,000 to provide resilient communications technology to U.S. and coalition forces.
L3Harris offers a full line of resilient communication devices and systems that provide access to Link 16 from virtually every platform in air, on land, or at sea.
The contract continues L3Harris’s 24 years of support delivering a standard communications interoperability solution to all U.S. armed services and 57 allied nations.
L3Harris Technologies delivered the Optical Telescope Assembly for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to NASA.
Firefly Aerospace signed a contract with L3Harris in August for up to 20 Alpha launches over five years.
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