Tag: L3Harris
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Intuitive Machines Wins L3Harris Selection for 18 Missile Tracking Spacecraft
The Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3, or AMDT3, supports the Golden Dome for America’s space-based capabilities. The mission is aimed at advancing homeland defense, deterrence, and ensuring U.S. space operations remain resilient and responsive. Intuitive Machines, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker LUNR, will supply the spacecraft platforms that enable L3Harris’ missile defense solutions…
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Pentagon Deal Sets L3Harris to Quadruple THAAD Propulsion Output
The THAAD missile defense production agreement represents a major expansion of one of the most important upstream components in the U.S. missile defense supply chain and is expected to become the largest THAAD propulsion award L3Harris has received to date. THAAD is a mobile, land-based missile defense system designed to intercept short-, medium- and intermediate-range…
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Space Development Agency Awards $1.75 Billion for 36 New Missile-Tracking Satellites
The awards mark another step in the Pentagon’s effort to build a large network of low Earth orbit satellites capable of detecting, tracking and helping defend against ballistic and hypersonic missile threats. The constellation is expected to support the Trump administration’s proposed Golden Dome missile defense initiative by providing space-based missile warning and tracking data.…
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SDA Awards L3Harris $955M, Sierra Space $798M for Tranche 3
Does the SDA’s $1.75B Tranche 3 Award Signal Accelerating Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Buildout? The Space Development Agency has committed $1.75 billion to two contractors for Tranche 3 of its Tracking Layer: L3Harris Technologies receives $955 million and Sierra Space receives $798 million, both under fixed-price Other Transaction Authority (OTA) rapid prototyping contracts. The contracts…
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Milestone moon mission is getting a push from Pacific Northwest tech
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Brent Urke, program manager for L3Harris’ facility in Redmond, Wash., check out a model of the Orion spaceship that’s due to take four astronauts around the moon as early as this week. Cantwell is pointing to the model’s set of eight R-4D thrusters. An actual R-4D thruster, manufactured in Redmond,…
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Rocketdyne redux: Seattle area’s oldest rocket factory to get new ownership under old name
Matt Dawson, an engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash., processes a set of MR-80 rocket engines for NASA’s Perseverance rover mission in advance of its launch in 2020. (Aerojet Rocketdyne / L3Harris File Photo) A decades-old rocket factory in Redmond, Wash., is due to be rebranded with a time-honored name: Rocketdyne. If all…
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NASA takes a trip to Seattle area to thank suppliers for work on the next moonshot
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg faces the TV cameras at L3Harris’ Aerojet Rocketdyne facility in Redmond, Wash. An R-4D-11 thruster and a decontamination oven are off to his left. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) REDMOND, Wash. — The first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years is still months away, but NASA is…
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Firefly Aerospace announces contract with L3Harris for up to 20 launches on Alpha rocket
A streak shot of Firefly Aerospace’s fifth launch of its Alpha rocket on a mission named “Noise of Summer.” Image: Firefly Aerospace/Sean Parker Coming on the heels of another large launch deal, Firefly Aerospace announced it sold up to 20 flights on its Alpha rocket to L3Harris. The agreement would see these missions fly between…
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SpaceX launches military satellites tuned to track hypersonic missiles
Two prototype satellites for the Missile Defense Agency and four missile-tracking satellites for the US Space Force rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Wednesday from Florida’s Space Coast. These satellites are part of a new generation of spacecraft designed to track hypersonic missiles launched by China or Russia and perhaps emerging missile threats…
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Farewell, Rocket.com: L3Harris completes acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne
Matt Dawson, an engineer at Aerojet Rocketdyne’s facility in Redmond, Wash., processes a set of MR-80 engines for NASA’s Perseverance rover mission in advance of its 2020 launch. (Aerojet Rocketdyne Photo) Florida-based L3Harris today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, two days after the Federal Trade Commission gave its OK for…