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 is headquartered in Melbourne, Florida and is a global defense and aerospace firm with $17,000,000,000 in annual revenue.
The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command awarded L3Harris Technologies an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract worth as much as $886,000,000 to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the intelligence community.
Tranche 0 includes 10 Transport Layer satellites made by Lockheed Martin and four Tracking Layer satellites made by L3Harris.
Millennium Space Systems is the manufacturer of WFOV, a mid-sized spacecraft equipped with an L3Harris infrared sensor payload.
The JPSS-2 satellite carries an integrated combination of L3Harris technologies including rocket launch avionics, X-band and Ka-band payloads that transmit images and scientific data, and an S-band transceiver that uplinks commands and downlinks spacecraft health information.
L3Harris Technologies’ Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) launched aboard NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) weather satellite.
Three-year-old NXT Communications secured a deal last year with L3Harris Technologies to deliver electronically steered antennas (ESAs) in the first quarter of 2022 to support U.S. Department of Defense warfighters.
L3Harris Technologies has received only an engineering model antenna from NXT Communications and has not received the production prototype.
The Space Development Agency is tracking the schedule of L3Harris’ satellites daily to ensure parts are delivered and the satellites are built on time.
The March mission will include four L3Harris Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites and an unspecified number of Transport Layer satellites.
Leidos was one of four companies that competed in 2020 for a Missile Defense Agency contract to design a hypersonic and ballistic missile-defense satellite and lost the contract to L3Harris and Northrop Grumman.
L3Harris received the contract to produce the other 14 satellites for Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
EMCORE’s combined product portfolio at GNSS+ will include closed-loop Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG) and MEMS-based inertial sensors alongside advanced tactical FOG, IMU, INS, and TACNAV products acquired from KVH and navigation-grade artillery, radar positioning & pointing, and battlefield survey systems acquired from L3Harris.
EMCORE acquired the advanced space and navigation products of L3Harris on 2022-04-29.
L3Harris developed the WFOV infrared sensor payload under a 2016 contract from the U.S. Air Force.
L3Harris’ 2022 ESG risk rating score represents nearly a 40 percent improvement overall since 2020.
In 2022 L3Harris reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 63,000 metric tons.
In 2019 L3Harris committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent, reduce water use by 20 percent, and increase waste diversion by 75 percent by 2026.
L3Harris’ Falcon radio product line delivers networked communications to more than 700,000 U.S. and allied users worldwide.
Northrop Grumman and L3Harris Technologies are each building 14 prototype missile warning and missile tracking satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.