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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EMCORE acquired associated production equipment from the L3Harris Space and Navigation business.
EMCORE Corporation (Nasdaq: EMKR) completed the acquisition of the L3Harris Space and Navigation business (L3Harris Technologies, NYSE: LHX) for approximately $5,000,000 in an all-cash transaction subject to net working capital adjustments.
Vice President Kamala Harris called on other nations on 2022-04-18 to pledge not to perform destructive direct-ascent antisatellite tests.
L3Harris Technologies showcased its ability to create synthetic training data for both electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar imagery at the 2022 GEOINT Symposium.
L3Harris won Basic Order Agreements from the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development program, a five-year program with a $242,000,000 ceiling.
The eight institutions collaborating at the Taylor Geospatial Institute are Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Harris-Stowe State University, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Saint Louis University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri-Columbia, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Washington University in St. Louis.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Vandenberg Space Force Base and was briefed at the Combined Space Operations Center on U.S. Space Command activities during her 2022-04-18 visit.
The first eight Tracking Layer satellites, made by L3Harris and SpaceX, are projected to launch in 2023.
L3Harris won an $84,000,000 contract from AFRL in 2018 to build NTS-3.
L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a contract by the Japan Meteorological Agency to conduct an advanced study to improve the accuracy and timing of Japan’s weather forecasting.
L3Harris Technologies will lead the geostationary hyperspectral infrared sounder study for the Japan Meteorological Agency’s future enterprise.
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) was awarded $117,000,000 for option-year three of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to maintain and modernize infrastructure to track objects in space.
L3Harris won the initial MOSSAIC contract in February 2020 to maintain and upgrade radar and optical sensors and command-and-control systems.
At L3Harris, Maria Hedden led an operational turnaround that culminated in her appointment to President in 2015.
The Space Development Agency’s first batch of eight sensor satellites includes four from L3Harris and four from SpaceX and is projected to launch in early 2023.
The Missile Defense Agency will launch two prototype infrared satellites in late 2023, one from L3Harris and one from Northrop Grumman, to conduct experiments.
L3Harris pivoted from making hosted payloads to building small satellites about five years ago and built a new business around the concept of responsive space for military and intelligence agencies.
CesiumAstro secured $60,000,000 in an oversubscribed Series B funding round co-led by Airbus Ventures and Forever Ventures with strategic participation from L3Harris Technologies.
The Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency purchased the first eight Tracking Layer satellites in 2020, four from L3Harris and four from a SpaceX–Leidos team.
The first eight Tracking Layer satellites from L3Harris and the SpaceX–Leidos team passed design reviews and are scheduled to launch in 2023.