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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L3Harris Technologies received a contract in June 2023 to design a third digital prototype for the MEO program.
Under the GBOSS contract, L3Harris will design and develop technology to upgrade the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance telescopes at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico and Maui, Hawaii.
L3Harris Technologies received two contracts worth up to $134,000,000 to update portions of the Department of Defense’s space domain awareness mission.
L3Harris received two Department of Defense contracts worth as much as $134,000,000 to update portions of the DoD’s Space Domain Awareness mission.
Under the GBOSS contract, L3Harris will design and develop technology to upgrade the existing Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance telescopes at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico and Maui, Hawaii.
L3Harris Technologies reported more than $22,000,000,000 in revenue last year.
L3Harris Technologies has more than 180 AppSTAR software-defined radio platforms currently on orbit and provides the ground segments for many of them.
The HMS program production orders awarded to L3Harris Technologies total more than $247,000,000.
L3Harris will pursue other Space Development Agency contracts and will compete for Tracking Layer Tranche 2 and a prototype constellation of classified tracking satellites recently announced by SDA.
L3Harris has an agreement with Firefly Aerospace to launch three satellites for an intelligence agency in 2026.
The four L3Harris wide-field-of-view infrared satellites are on track to launch in October on USSF-124 alongside two Missile Defense Agency medium-field-of-view prototype infrared satellites.
L3Harris won a contract in July to build 14 Tracking Layer Tranche 1 satellites that are projected to launch in 2025.
The four missile-detection tracking satellites built by L3Harris will be part of the Transport Layer sensor network in low Earth orbit.
Before joining HawkEye 360, Rob Rainhart held various engineering and technical leadership roles at RT Logic and Harris Corporation.
NOAA selected L3Harris in March to provide the imager instrument for the GeoXO satellites under a $765,500,000 contract.
Firefly Aerospace signed a multi-launch agreement with L3Harris Technologies for three dedicated launches on Firefly’s Alpha vehicle in 2026.
Firefly Aerospace signed a multi-launch agreement with L3Harris Technologies for three dedicated Alpha launches in 2026.
The three L3Harris missions under the Firefly agreement will launch from Firefly’s SLC-2 launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The Space Development Agency ordered 14 Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellites from L3Harris.
Firefly will provide rapid launch capabilities for L3Harris to achieve direct access to low Earth orbit at a lower cost and to support responsive space needs of the U.S. government.