The Space Development Agency awarded L3Harris and SpaceX contracts worth $342 million combined to build satellites to provide missile tracking data for hypersonic glide vehicles and next generation advanced missile threats.
The two companies won bids to build out Tranche 0 of the tracking layer for the National Defense Space Architecture. Both L3Harris Technologies, Inc., of Melbourne, Florida, and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., of Hawthorne, California, also known as SpaceX, were successful in their bids to participate in the NDSA. Read More…