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 and SpaceX won contracts to provide four satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer for missile detection and tracking.
Vice President Kamala Harris is actively engaged and has had several meetings with the National Space Council.
The National Space Council is chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and includes heads of various federal agencies involved in space.
L3Harris won a $193,500,000 contract from SDA in October to produce four missile-tracking satellites with wide-field-of-view sensors.
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman are required to deliver satellites to MDA by 2023.
SDA plans to launch the eight sensor satellites built by L3Harris and SpaceX in 2023 for a demonstration of its tracking layer.
L3Harris won a $121,000,000 contract from MDA in January to produce a medium-field-of-view sensor satellite for the HBTSS program.
L3Harris built eight satellites at the expanded Palm Bay facility that are currently on orbit and has another 10 satellites in various stages of development.
The expanded Palm Bay production capability enables L3Harris to develop and test the experimental Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3).
L3Harris Technologies is expanding its Palm Bay, Florida satellite production site to include advanced production of unclassified satellites that will deliver experimental capabilities for national defense.
L3Harris has eight buildings at the Palm Bay site and two of those buildings have been recently upgraded to manufacture multiple end-to-end satellites per month.
L3Harris’ Central Florida facility contains more than 100,000 square feet used for development, manufacturing, and testing of full satellites and components.
The trial featured an L3Harris HCB system using AESA apertures supporting 600 Mbps.
L3Harris is producing NTS-3 using a Northrop Grumman ESPAStar bus.
GPS III satellites are built by Lockheed Martin under a 2008 contract from the U.S. Air Force with navigation payloads supplied by L3Harris.
The U.S. Navy awarded L3Harris $18,000,000 as part of the Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP).
Chirag Parikh has been appointed as the executive secretary of the National Space Council by US Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris is planning to host the first meeting of the National Space Council in the fall.
L3 Harris will construct the NTS-3 spacecraft by changing the spacecraft bus.
Following L3 Harris’s work, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) tests the bus using the NTS-3 ground control and user equipment segments.