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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The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman on 2022-07-18 to each build 14 missile-tracking satellites for the Tracking Layer.
L3Harris developed four prototype satellites under the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0 award in 2020.
SDA ordered the first eight Tracking Layer satellites (Tranche 0) in 2020 from L3Harris and SpaceX.
L3Harris was awarded a Tranche 1 Tracking Layer prototype agreement with a potential value of approximately $700,000,000.
L3Harris previously won a contract for four Tracking Layer Tranche 0 satellites.
L3Harris will build a 14-vehicle satellite constellation for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer that will include optical communications terminals, infrared mission payloads, Ka-band communications payloads, and multiple pointing modes.
Raytheon, L3Harris, and BAE Systems have been under contract since 2012 to produce M-Code receivers.
L3Harris will invest approximately EUR 11.2 million in Mynaric by means of a capital increase from authorized capital under exclusion of subscription rights.
L3Harris will acquire 409,294 new bearer shares of Mynaric at a price of approximately EUR 27.37 per share.
L3Harris agreed on 2022-07-05 to invest 11,200,000 EUR into Mynaric, taking a 7.2% stake in the Munich-based company.
Airbus bid in 2020 as a prime contractor to supply SDA missile-tracking satellites but lost that prime contract to L3Harris and SpaceX.
L3Harris Technologies developed a transformational OPIR six-degree staring sensor hosted on the WFOV spacecraft under a separate contract.
WFOV’s infrared sensor payload was developed by L3Harris Technologies under a 2016 contract from the U.S. Air Force.
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 is providing the infrared instrument as part of a wide-field-of-view satellite that will help inform future space-based missile defense missions and architectures.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a missile-tracking study contract in 2019 and a prototype demonstration contract in January 2021.
L3Harris Technologies developed an infrared instrument intended to improve the ability to capture high-resolution imagery and battlefield information from space for future missile defense efforts.
The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris in December 2020 to build and launch four space vehicles to demonstrate the capability to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced on 2022-04-18 at Vandenberg Space Force Base that the United States would ban testing of destructive, direct-ascent antisatellite (ASAT) weapons.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris expressed approval after France signed the Artemis Accords via a 2022-06-07 tweet.