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 developing a next-generation geostationary imager concept design for future GeoXO programs.
L3Harris delivered its fourth Advanced Baseline Imager to NASA in late 2021.
L3Harris Technologies’ third high-resolution weather instrument is scheduled to launch on 2022-03-01 onboard a NOAA satellite.
L3Harris Technologies built the fourth Advanced Baseline Imager and integrated it into NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U).
The Biden-Harris Administration committed to extend International Space Station operations until 2030.
L3Harris Technologies is developing ATLAS applications in a new architecture designed to scale and handle commercial constellation growth, increased debris, anti-satellite tests, and adversarial threats.
The U.S. Space Force extended L3Harris Technologies’ contract to develop a software platform used to monitor space launches, satellites, and debris in orbit.
L3Harris Technologies won a sole-source $53,000,000 contract in 2018 to develop the Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS) to replace the SPADOC system.
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded L3Harris Technologies a competitive 10-year, $750,000,000 single-award IDIQ contract for multi-channel handheld and vehicular radio systems.
The resilience of L3Harris radios is identified as critical to achieving the U.S. Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030 vision and enabling Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2).
L3Harris is developing concepts for the next generation of geostationary weather imagers and sounders as part of NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Program.
In 2020, Leidos acquired Dynetics and L3Harris’ Security Detection and Automation Systems division.
L3Harris Technologies delivered the fourth Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) to NASA, completing the series of advanced weather sensors for NOAA’s newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES).
L3Harris is collaborating with the Missile Defense Agency to provide prototype HBTSS satellites intended to demonstrate sensitivity and fire-control quality of service necessary to support the hypersonic kill chain.
L3Harris has been building and procuring components concurrently with design work to maintain an aggressive program schedule for HBTSS.
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.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a study contract for HBTSS in 2019 and awarded the prototype demonstration contract in January 2021.
The Space Development Agency in October 2020 selected L3Harris and SpaceX to each produce four satellites to demonstrate the capability to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
Northrop Grumman and L3Harris must deliver their HBTSS prototype satellites in 2023.
The Missile Defense Agency in January awarded Northrop Grumman a $155,000,000 contract and L3Harris a $121,000,000 contract to develop prototypes for on-orbit demonstrations.