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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Moog eventually delivered the satellite buses and the Space Development Agency launched L3Harris’ satellites in February.
For the next tranche of satellites L3Harris is building for the Space Development Agency, projected to launch in 2025, L3Harris switched to bus supplier Maxar Space Systems.
L3Harris Technologies received an award for option year five of the Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program from the U.S. Space Force worth up to $187,000,000.
L3Harris won a $23,000,000 award in February 2020 to maintain and upgrade radar and optical sensors and command-and-control systems that provide timely, accurate space domain awareness data for military, civil, and commercial users.
L3Harris Technologies sued Moog Inc. in federal court alleging Moog failed to timely deliver critical satellite components and provided defective parts.
Under the MOSSAIC option year five contract, L3Harris will perform modifications and upgrades to all systems, including generating rich sensor metadata to support a transition to a dynamic and responsive tasking approach for tactical space domain awareness.
L3Harris Corporation will integrate NTS-3 using Northrop Grumman’s ESPAStar bus and will build on EAGLE’s flight heritage.
L3Harris completed electromagnetic interference testing on the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument for NOAA’s JPSS-4 satellite.
L3Harris built the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument for JPSS-4.
L3Harris received more than $1,000,000,000 in weather-related contracts in the prior year.
Vice President Kamala Harris stated that the goal is to land an international astronaut on the surface of the Moon by the end of the decade.
Mercury Systems was awarded a $31,000,000 contract from L3Harris Technologies to provide solid-state data recorders for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite constellation.
L3Harris Technologies was selected in January to design and build 18 satellites for SDA’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program.
Tranche 2 follows L3Harris’s 16-satellite Tranche 1 constellation and the four satellites L3Harris built and launched for Tranche 0.
Tranche 2 follows a 16-satellite constellation that L3Harris is building for Tranche 1 and four recently launched satellites that L3Harris built for Tranche 0.
L3Harris Technologies was selected in January to design and build 18 satellites for the SDA Tranche 2 Tracking Layer to provide near-global missile warning and tracking coverage with preliminary missile defense.
L3Harris’ Tracking Layer Tranche 2 satellites are designed for missile-tracking missions.
Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) was awarded a $31,000,000 contract by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) to provide solid-state data recorders for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite constellation.
L3Harris completed electromagnetic interference testing on its Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument for JPSS-4.
L3Harris received more than $1,000,000,000 in weather-related contracts last year.