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 NASA contracts awarded to L3Harris and Raytheon are one-year, firm-fixed-price awards worth about $6,000,000 apiece.
L3Harris Technologies will develop an imager design and conduct technology development and analysis for NOAA’s Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) satellite system.
NASA selected L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) to develop a concept for the next generation of geostationary weather imagers.
Vincent Furia worked for 11 years at Harris Corporation.
The Space Development Agency ordered 20 transport satellites from Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems and eight tracking satellites from L3Harris and SpaceX last year.
The Missile Defense Agency sensor satellites will be part of a larger missile warning network that will include Space Development Agency missile-tracking satellites being developed by L3Harris and SpaceX.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman and L3Harris contracts to build sensor satellites to be deployed in low Earth orbit in July 2023.
L3Harris delivered the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) instrument for NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) in January 2021.
L3Harris was selected in February 2021 to develop and deploy the ground system command and control for NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program.
L3Harris Technologies was awarded $89,000,000 for option-year two of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command MOSSAIC contract to continue maintaining and modernizing 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.
L3Harris Technologies has provided navigation technology for every U.S. GPS satellite ever launched.
Lockheed Martin awarded L3Harris Technologies new contracts totaling $137,000,000 for four additional navigation payload Mission Data Units for future GPS IIIF satellites.
L3Harris Technologies received an award in 2018 to design and build the first two fully-digital Mission Data Units for GPS satellites.
The GPS IIIF Mission Data Unit will provide improved capabilities over L3Harris’s 70-percent-digital Mission Data Unit used on the first ten GPS III satellites.
Lockheed Martin selected L3Harris in 2018 to design and build the first two fully digital mission data units.
L3Harris Technologies received a $137,000,000 contract from Lockheed Martin on 2021-02-23 to supply four digital payloads for GPS navigation satellites.
L3Harris Technologies received contracts totaling $137,000,000 for four navigation payload Mission Data Units (MDU) for future GPS III Follow-on (GPS IIIF) satellites.
In 2019 Lockheed Martin awarded L3Harris a $243,000,000 contract for two payloads.
L3Harris Technologies will deliver avionics and support Vulcan Centaur launches through 2027 under the contract extension.