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 will provide a critical communications radio to Axiom Space for its planned commercial space station.
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.
The L3Harris C/TT 520 S-band radio will serve as the common data link between Axiom Station and its docking vehicles, enabling audio, video, and telemetry data at varying data rates and communications ranges.
L3Harris expects to complete the five 2023 satellites on schedule and ramp up production of 14 more satellites to be delivered by 2025.
L3Harris Technologies has more than $17,000,000,000 in annual revenue and 47,000 employees and serves customers in more than 100 countries.
L3Harris built five missile-detection satellites under Pentagon contracts that are projected to launch in 2023.
The second Tracking Layer launch, planned for March 2023, will include all four L3Harris satellites and additional satellites from the Transport Layer Tranche 0 produced by Lockheed Martin and York Space.
L3Harris won a $700,000,000 deal and Northrop Grumman won a $617,000,000 contract for Tranche 1 work.
The U.S. Space Development Agency awarded SpaceX a $149,000,000 contract and L3Harris a $193,500,000 contract in October 2020 to each build four satellites to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
A fifth L3Harris missile-detection satellite developed for the Missile Defense Agency is expected to launch to low Earth orbit in 2023 with a classified specific timeframe.
Four infrared sensor satellites built by L3Harris for the U.S. Space Development Agency are projected to launch to low Earth orbit in March 2023.
L3Harris Technologies will provide an S-band communications radio to Axiom Space for Axiom Station.
The Missile Defense Agency plans to launch two HBTSS prototypes, one from L3Harris and one from Northrop Grumman, to test sensor capabilities to track hypersonic and dim upper-stage ballistic missiles.
Following completion of the HBTSS and Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites, L3Harris will have less than three years to produce 14 satellites for Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
L3Harris will produce and test the infrared payloads at its classified facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
L3Harris is developing a missile-detection satellite under a $121,000,000 contract with the Missile Defense Agency for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program (HBTSS).
Both L3Harris and Northrop Grumman were awarded other transaction agreements for Tracking Layer Tranche 1, which require contractors to team with nontraditional commercial vendors.
L3Harris Technologies, Inc. of Melbourne, Florida was awarded a Tranche 1 Tracking Layer prototype agreement.
L3Harris won a $700,000,000 contract for Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
The four space vehicles produced under L3Harris’s $193,000,000 firm fixed-price Tranche 0 contract are scheduled to launch in 2023.