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 expanded a payload production facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
L3Harris expects the new Space & Mission Systems segment to drive approximately $11.5 billion in revenue in 2026 due to growth in ISR aircraft missionization and space solutions.
L3Harris moved the Communication Systems business into a Communications & Spectrum Dominance (CSD) segment that also includes the company’s WESCAM sensor business and other electronic warfare programs.
L3Harris is a contractor on PWSA and is an experienced satellite manufacturer with assets on orbit.
L3Harris set Missile Solutions (MSL) guidance for 2026 at $4.4 billion.
L3Harris reported $21.9 billion in company-wide revenue for 2025, up 3% year-over-year.
L3Harris attributed a 50 basis-point improvement in Space and Airborne Systems operating margin to stabilizing program performance and a cost savings program, bringing the margin to 12.3% in 2025.
L3Harris provided company-wide guidance for 2026 of $23 billion to $23.5 billion.
The hot fire test was conducted by a team of operators from NASA, L3Harris Technologies, and Sierra Lobo, Inc., the test operations contractor for NASA Stennis.
NASA Stennis provides critical data to L3Harris, the prime contractor for the SLS main engines.
L3Harris aims to enhance the tracking and characterization of tropical cyclones, extreme precipitation events, and wildfires.
L3Harris will provide its 18-channel GEO-KOMPSAT Meteorological Imager payload, which includes two channels for improved water vapor measurement and enhanced resolution.
LIG Nex1 has selected L3Harris Technologies to provide the imaging payload for the GEO-KOMPSAT-5 weather satellite.
L3Harris supported the meteorological imager aboard Korea's predecessor satellite, the Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite.
L3Harris has previously supplied the imaging payload for Korea's current geostationary weather satellite, GEO-KOMPSAT-2A.
The proposed detector extends systems already operating in the Harris laboratory by scaling the mass to the gram level while preserving extremely high quantum sensitivity needed to resolve single quanta.
Pikovski and Harris are developing a centimeter-scale superfluid helium resonator engineered to approach the regime where single gravitons from astrophysical gravitational waves can be absorbed and converted into measurable mechanical excitations.
L3Harris aims to create a pure-play provider focused exclusively on speed and manufacturing depth for the missile industry by 'carving out' propulsion assets.
The investment targets L3Harris's newly formed Missile Solutions business unit, which includes the critical propulsion assets of Aerojet Rocketdyne.
The Department of Defense announced a $1 billion investment in the solid rocket motor business of L3Harris Technologies on January 13, 2026.