L3Harris’ Sam Mehta: ‘We can actually get in on the ground floor and help influence some of the requirements since they’re at the beginning of their launch cycle’

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L3Harris announced a $125 million expansion at its space manufacturing site in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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The U.S. space industry is several years away from having the capacity for continuous satellite production, according to prime contractors speaking April 8 during a Space Symposium panel in Colorado Springs.

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Colorado Springs — L3Harris Technologies is preparing to modernize the development, production and testing of weather satellite instruments in a new 9,290-square-meter facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “The new facility […]

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Millennium Space to deliver eight satellites in 2026 as Pentagon accelerates push on missile defense

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Space companies joined heavy stock market declines across the board as governments started responding to sweeping U.S. tariffs across dozens of countries.

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Golden Dome will require more than just deploying sensors and interceptors. The system needs a 'collaborative autonomous network'

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The company is a contender in the Space Force’s Resilient GPS program, an initiative aimed at augmenting the existing GPS constellation with smaller and lower-cost satellites

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The proposed “Iron Dome for America” system is heavily reliant on space-based sensors and potentially controversial space-based interceptors

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The company plans to open a new infrared sensor payload factory

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The Space Systems Command awarded contracts to Astranis, Axient, L3Harris and Sierra Space

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Firefly Aerospace has won a contract from L3Harris for as many as 20 launches of its Alpha rocket over five years.

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The Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program is planning a live demonstration of an airborne terminal in 2025

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Millennium Space won a $414 million contract from the Space Development Agency to build eight satellites equipped with advanced infrared and optical sensors

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The company is competing in the U.S. Space Force’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Missile Warning and Tracking program

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During the demonstration in Fairbanks, Alaska, the antenna system prototype handled an average of more than 300 satellite contacts per day, including up to eight simultaneous contacts.

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The Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest filed by L3Harris over NASA’s award of a contract to Ball Aerospace for a next-generation weather satellite instrument.

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A national security space mission that had been projected to launch in December 2023 is being delayed until the second quarter of 2024 due to technical issues with one of the spacecraft.

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Maxar Technologies is set to deliver in early 2024 the first of 16 satellite buses ordered by L3Harris for a military constellation in low Earth orbit (LEO) run by the U.S. Space Development Agency.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next generation of geostationary weather satellites will significantly improve weather forecasting thanks to the addition of a hyperspectral infrared sounder.

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The $19.6 billion budget for the GeoXO program, approved in December, covers six satellites, operations and support extending from 2022 to 2052.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the newest satellite in its geostationary fleet, GOES-18, operational Jan. 4 and designated it GOES West.

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NOAA is preparing to launch the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 on Nov. 1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

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Five missile-detection satellites built by L3Harris under Pentagon contracts are projected to launch in 2023.

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