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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Four satellites that L3Harris built for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 launched in February.
Mercury Systems is providing the primary data storage devices for all three of L3Harris’s Tracking Layer constellations.
Mercury Systems has a $31,000,000 contract dated 2024-04-10 to supply solid-state data recorders to L3Harris Technologies for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 2.
In January, the U.S. Space Development Agency awarded contracts to L3Harris, Lockheed Martin, and Sierra Space to produce 18 Tracking Layer Tranche 2 satellites apiece equipped with infrared sensors to track hypersonic missiles in flight.
In December, the U.S. Space Development Agency contracted L3Harris to begin producing 16 Tracking Layer Tranche 1 satellites.
Iridium will provide the STL service to more than three dozen L3Harris-operated communications network backbone nodes throughout the United States.
Adtran’s Oscilloquartz division provides compact devices that receive Iridium STL signals as part of the solution for L3Harris.
L3Harris owns and operates a private nationwide network for the FAA that provides voice, data, and video communications for National Airspace System operations and mission support functions.
The L3Harris businesses to be divested employ approximately 375 people.
L3Harris Technologies has signed a definitive agreement under which an affiliate of Kanders & Company, Inc. will acquire L3Harris’ antenna and related businesses for $200,000,000.
The L3Harris businesses to be divested are part of the Space & Airborne Systems segment.
The L3Harris businesses to be divested offer a variety of airborne and ground-based antennas and test equipment.
In July 2022 the Space Development Agency ordered 14 Tracking Layer satellites from Northrop Grumman and 14 from L3Harris Technologies.
Maxar Space Systems has been selected by L3Harris Technologies to design and produce eighteen Maxar 300 spacecraft platforms and provide associated support for the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program with the Space Development Agency.
Maxar Space Systems held an existing contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer that was awarded in 2022.
Maxar Space Systems held an existing contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer that was awarded in 2022.
On 2024-03-07, L3Harris Technologies selected Maxar Space Systems to design and produce eighteen Maxar 300 spacecraft platforms and provide associated support for its Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program with the Space Development Agency.
L3Harris designed an infrared sensor satellite for the U.S. Space Force Medium Earth Orbit Missile Warning and Tracking program that completed a preliminary design review on 2024-03-04 and is on track for critical design review in 2024.
Earlier 2024 L3Harris Technologies received a $919,000,000 contract to develop an 18-vehicle constellation for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer satellite program.
Five missile tracking satellites designed and built by L3Harris Technologies successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida as part of the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program and the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 Tracking Layer program.