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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Lockheed Martin selected L3Harris in 2018 to design and build the first two fully-digital MDUs.
L3Harris communications technology will transmit data to and from the Perseverance rover through relay orbiters that provide a communications link with NASA controllers on Earth from up to 250 million miles away.
NOAA awarded a five-year, cost-plus contract to L3Harris to develop, deploy, and operate a command and control system for the Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 observatory.
L3Harris plans to perform contract work at its Melbourne, Florida headquarters.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $43,800,000 space weather contract to L3 Harris Technologies.
Melbourne, Florida-based L3Harris will develop, deploy, and operate a command and control system for NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 observatory.
L3Harris plans to perform work at its Melbourne, Florida headquarters and to install equipment at NOAA’s Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, Maryland; NOAA’s Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station in Wallops, Virginia; and NOAA’s Consolidated Backup Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia.
L3Harris Technologies has provided navigation technology for every U.S. GPS satellite ever launched.
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) was awarded a $121,000,000 U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract to build space flight hardware for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a study contract for the HBTSS development program in 2019 as the prior phase of the program.
The Space Development Agency selected L3Harris in December 2020 to build and launch four space vehicles to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles for launch in 2022.
The U.S. Air Force selected L3Harris in April 2019 to design prototype payloads and mission concepts that evolved into the U.S. Space Force’s medium-Earth orbit track custody demonstration.
L3Harris was selected by the Missile Defense Agency to build a prototype sensor satellite capable of tracking hypersonic and ballistic missiles.
In October 2019 the Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos, and L3Harris each $20,000,000 contracts to design space sensors for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded L3Harris a $121,000,000 contract on 2021-01-14 for the prototype sensor satellite.
L3Harris and SpaceX are each building four satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer.
L3Harris Technologies completed development of an electronic phased array ground antenna for the U.S. Space Force on 2021-01-12.
L3Harris Technologies completed a technology demonstration under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system.
L3Harris developed an all-digital phased array antenna technology to meet the growing ground system capacity demands created by the increasing number of satellite missions.
L3Harris performed the successful demonstration with support from Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. and Mercury Systems.