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ExoTerra’s Halo Hall-effect thrusters fired in orbit for the first time in 2023 on DARPA Blackjack Aces satellites manufactured by RTX subsidiary Blue Canyon Technologies.

NARRATIVE GENERAL6/20/2024ExoTerra raises $8 million to boost propulsion system production

Raytheon won a contract as a prime contractor to produce seven Tranche 1 satellites for the Space Development Agency but later decided it could not meet the price targets and de-scoped much of the work.

ORG RELATIONSHIP4/18/2024Suppliers struggle as military embraces small satellites

Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon won contracts in 2021 to design digital models of MEO tracking satellites.

ORG RELATIONSHIP10/30/2023Space Force to begin procurement of missile-tracking satellites for medium Earth orbit constellation

Fortify raised $12,500,000 from investors including Lockheed Martin Ventures and RTX Ventures.

NARRATIVE FINANCIAL6/1/2023Fortify raises $12.5 million for digital composite manufacturing

Since DEUCSI began in 2017, companies that have won contracts under the program include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ball Aerospace, SES, Iridium, and SpaceX.

ORG RELATIONSHIP5/26/2023L3Harris wins $80 million Air Force contract for satcom experiments

Raytheon’s space vehicles are part of SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, SDA’s first operationally capable set of LEO infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.

NARRATIVE GENERAL5/8/2023CesiumAstro to provide 7 multi-beam, active phased array comms payloads to Raytheon Technologies for SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer

Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.

NARRATIVE GENERAL5/8/2023CesiumAstro to Provide Active Phased Array Communication Payloads for SDA’s T1TL Lunar Exploration

Raytheon Technologies’ space vehicles are part of Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, the Space Development Agency’s first operationally capable set of low-Earth orbit infrared missile warning and missile tracking satellites.

NARRATIVE GENERAL5/4/2023CesiumAstro Selected to Provide 7 Multi-Beam, Active Phased Array Communications Payloads to Raytheon Technologies for SDA’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer

Raytheon and L3Harris won contracts in 2021 valued at about $6,000,000 each to conduct studies of the GeoXO imager.

ORG RELATIONSHIP1/10/2023Full steam ahead for NOAA’s $20 billion GeoXO program

Raytheon Technologies is an aerospace and defense company formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE9/15/2022FAA contracts Raytheon I&S to modernize WAAS

Raytheon Technologies is an aerospace and defense company formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE9/15/2022FAA contracts Raytheon I&S to modernize WAAS

Raytheon Technologies is an aerospace and defense company formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

NARRATIVE GOVERNANCE9/15/2022FAA contracts Raytheon I&S to modernize WAAS

Raytheon Intelligence & Space will upgrade Cobham Special Mission’s fleet of Dash 8 fixed-wing aircraft to the most advanced version of its SeaVue multi-domain surveillance radar to support Australian border protection operations.

NARRATIVE GENERAL7/28/2022Raytheon I&S to upgrade Australian border surveillance aircraft with advanced radar

The new contract awarded to Raytheon funds additional development work beyond what was required under the original EWS contract.

ORG RELATIONSHIP12/15/2021Raytheon wins $67 million U.S. Space Force contract to build weather satellite prototype

Maxar invested most of $150,000,000 spent in 2018 into its WorldView Legion satellites, which are being built in-house at SSL with imaging payloads provided by Raytheon.

NARRATIVE GENERAL3/1/2019Maxar cutting jobs to help stem $1.26 billion loss, stabilize satellite division