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 sale of L3Harris’s Space Propulsion and Power business is expected to close in the second half of 2026.
L3Harris is leading research into Nuclear Thermal Propulsion.
L3Harris, through its Aerojet Rocketdyne segment, manages production and refurbishment of RS-25 engines for the Space Launch System core stage.
L3Harris Technologies plans to develop a mobile vehicular version of the 5G and satellite hybrid radio for the U.S. Army.
L3Harris Technologies is accelerating propulsion technologies for nuclear and electric systems intended for cislunar space and Mars transit.
L3Harris Technologies introduced the XL-300P at the IWCE 2026 event in Las Vegas on Monday, March 16, 2026.
L3Harris delivered three Advanced Electric Propulsion System thrusters to NASA in late 2025.
L3Harris Technologies plans to start shipping the XL-300P in July 2026.
Artemis II will be the first flight to use L3Harris’s mission-critical avionics and RS-25 engines to carry humans into the lunar vicinity in over 50 years.
L3Harris received an $843 million contract from the Space Development Agency in late 2025 to build 18 satellites for the Tranche 3 Tracking Layer.
L3Harris selected Lanteris Space Systems, now owned by Intuitive Machines, as the spacecraft bus provider for its work for the Space Development Agency.
L3Harris selected Intuitive Machines to provide spacecraft platforms for the Tranche 3 Tracking Layer of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Lanteris Space Systems, formerly known as Maxar Space Systems, built satellite platforms for SDA Tracking Layers 1 and 2 in support of L3Harris.
L3Harris Technologies expanded Florida-based satellite integration facilities with a $100 million investment.
L3Harris Technologies holds an $843 million Space Development Agency contract for the Tranche 3 Tracking Layer.
L3Harris Technologies positions itself as a high-growth firm based in part on its $100 million expansion of Florida-based satellite integration facilities.
L3Harris Technologies invested $100 million to expand its Florida-based satellite integration facilities.
Citi Research identified L3Harris Technologies, Iridium Communications, and Lockheed Martin as key beneficiaries of a projected surge in U.S. defense spending on Feb. 27.
L3Harris Technologies merged its space capabilities into the Space & Mission Systems business unit as part of a 2026 corporate restructuring under the leadership of Samir Mehta.
L3Harris Technologies’s restructuring aligns its satellite payload and missile defense divisions to match the Pentagon’s two-year spiral development cadence.