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Major current players in the space situational awareness market include Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, Kratos, Parsons, and Peraton.
Kratos and RAFAEL have jointly committed up to $175 million in capital to stand up Prometheus Energetics and build out the manufacturing campus.
Kratos brings U.S. production experience in hypersonics, ballistic missile targets, sub-orbital research vehicles, and solid rocket motors.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions completed the Critical Design Review for the Space Development Agency’s Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure system on February 26, 2026.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions completed the Critical Design Review for the Space Development Agency’s Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure system on February 26, 2026.
Kratos’ space division is experiencing growth while software-defined satellites arriving later are catching up with OpenSpace ground station technology.
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions’ OpenSpace platform is described as a software-defined ground platform.
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions offers an OpenSpace software-defined ground system.
Kratos will perform the JHTO material testing work at its specialized facilities.
Kratos is the prime contractor for the $1.45 billion MACH-TB 2.0 program, which provides a flight test bed to bridge the gap between ground testing and full system flight tests.
The JHTO contract focuses on maturing the analytical models and test setpoints required to validate Kratos’ multi-million dollar hypersonics investments.
Kratos will leverage its SRE (Southern Research Engineering) division’s decades of expertise to analyze varied flight environments under the JHTO program.
Lockheed Martin Corporation, L3Harris Technologies, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Parsons Corporation, and Peraton are major companies operating in the space situational awareness market.
Kratos’ JHTO testing efforts are expected to alleviate bottlenecks in the U.S. defense industrial base caused by limited high-fidelity testing slots that have delayed transition of innovative materials from the lab to the field.
Kratos intends for the results of its JHTO testing to serve as a benchmark for future aerothermal evaluations.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions received a contract from the Department of War’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office on February 18, 2026 to support test and evaluation of thermal protection systems for hypersonic vehicles.
Kratos will begin executing material test campaigns immediately using the newly developed methodologies as a model for the broader hypersonic testing community.
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Kratos is ramping up operations at its Princess Anne facility as part of support for hypersonic test activities.