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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Tranche 0 consists of 28 satellites including 20 communications payloads made by Lockheed Martin and York Space and eight missile-tracking infrared sensor satellites made by SpaceX and L3Harris.
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a National Space Council meeting on 2022-09-09 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) requested in a 2022-09-08 letter to Vice President Kamala Harris that the National Space Council provide regulatory clarity for the domestic space industry and advance international norms for space activity.
Vice President Kamala Harris announced on 2022-04-18 that the United States would refrain from conducting direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) tests.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived at Kennedy Space Center earlier on the morning of 2022-08-29 and was scheduled to tour the center and view Orion spacecraft hardware under construction and give a speech later in the day.
The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris Technologies as a prime contractor for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer of the National Defense Space Architecture.
L3Harris Technologies selected Maxar Technologies to design and produce 14 spacecraft platforms and associated support for L3Harris’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the Space Development Agency.
Vice President Kamala Harris did not provide a timeline for completing revisions to commercial space regulations beyond expressing a desire to complete the work at a swift pace.
L3Harris Technologies was selected by the Space Development Agency as a prime contractor for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer as part of the initial Missile Warning/Missile Tracking warfighting capability of the National Defense Space Architecture.
Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado was selected by L3Harris Technologies to design and produce 14 spacecraft platforms and associated support for L3Harris’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer contract with the Space Development Agency on 2022-08-09.
Maxar was selected by L3Harris on 2022-08-09 to supply 14 satellite buses for a Space Development Agency contract to produce 14 satellites scheduled to launch in 2025.
L3Harris won a $700,000,000 contract from the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency to produce 14 satellites to launch in 2025.
The contract with L3Harris covers integration of mission payloads including optical terminals for mesh networking, Ka-band communications, and infrared sensors.
Maxar Technologies was selected by L3Harris to manufacture 14 missile-detection satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency.
The U.S. Space Development Agency awarded L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman contracts to each build 14 missile-tracking satellites for the Tracking Layer Tranche 1 constellation.
The subcontract with L3Harris is a fixed-price deal for Maxar’s new workhorse PLEO bus, which is designed for proliferated low Earth orbit constellations and is based on an earlier design Maxar bid for the Telesat constellation.
Maxar Technologies will supply satellite buses and provide support services as a subcontractor to L3Harris on the Tracking Layer Tranche 1 work.
L3Harris won a $700,000,000 contract for Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
The L3Harris C/TT 520 S-band radio will serve as the common data link between Axiom Station and Axiom’s docking vehicles, enabling audio, video, and telemetry data at varying data rates and communications ranges.
L3Harris radios have performed the common data link role on the International Space Station for visiting vehicles during all phases of rendezvous, docking, and mated operations since 2018.