{"id":142878,"date":"2022-07-26T04:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/l3harris-northrop-picked-for-1-3-billion-hypersonics-tracking-satellite-project"},"modified":"2022-07-26T04:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T09:03:42","slug":"l3harris-northrop-picked-for-1-3-billion-hypersonics-tracking-satellite-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/l3harris-northrop-picked-for-1-3-billion-hypersonics-tracking-satellite-project","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris, Northrop picked for $1.3 billion hypersonics tracking satellite project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/l3harris-northrop-picked-for-1-3-billion-hypersonics-tracking-satellite-project2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems won a U.S. Department of Defense contract to furnish multimillion-dollar satellites that help detect, identify and target missiles and other cutting-edge threats, including hypersonics.<\/p>\n<p>The Space Development Agency on July 18 said the companies will each produce 14 prototype satellites for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer, a key component of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Defense Space Architecture<\/a>, which will consist of hundreds of satellites operating primarily in low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the agreements are valued at more than $1.3 billion. The L3Harris deal came in at $700 million, making each satellite and related service package worth roughly $50 million. The Northrop Grumman deal came in at $617 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems won a U.S. Department of Defense contract to furnish multimillion-dollar satellites that help detect, identify and target missiles and other cutting-edge threats, including hypersonics. The Space Development Agency on July 18 said the companies will each produce 14 prototype satellites for the Tranche 1 Tracking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}