L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; Boeing Space ranks 83 with 65. L3Harris is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Boeing Space is based in Arlington, United States, L3Harris in Melbourne, United States. Boeing Space: Subsidiary. L3Harris: Public. Boeing Space is named in 0 signals and L3Harris in 109.
Boeing Space builds spacecraft, including Starliner, and is expanding satellite production to meet missile-warning demand.
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Boeing's space unit makes 702-line GEO satellites, the SLS core stage, and MILNET/classified work, with Millennium Space (scored separately) as its proliferated-LEO arm and a troubled Starliner program carrying charges. It is the prime whose small-sat relevance runs through its subsidiary while the parent carries the legacy-program overhang. Segment financials are program-scoped (a filings pass owed).
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L3Harris builds spacecraft for defense and intelligence missions, including SDA missile-warning satellites, and supplies optical, communications and guidance systems for space missions.
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L3Harris is a US defense prime (NYSE:LHX, ~$21B group) whose missile-tracking satellite franchise has 4 Tranche 0 satellites on orbit plus 34 in development, winning an $843M T3 Tracking Layer award (December 2025) and a $955M AMDT3 award (July 2026) for fire-control-quality sensors due by end-2028 under the Golden Dome mandate. It is Golden Dome's biggest visible satellite winner, its $1.75B AMDT3 (split with Sierra Space) sitting atop the December 2025 $3.5B/72-satellite T3 round, with Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion under the group and Army NGC2 orders adding demand. It is the defense-prime space engine at full demand.
109 signals name L3Harris.
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L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; Boeing Space ranks 83 with 65. L3Harris is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Boeing Space is based in Arlington, United States, L3Harris in Melbourne, United States. Boeing Space: Subsidiary. L3Harris: Public. Boeing Space is named in 0 signals and L3Harris in 109.
L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; Boeing Space ranks 83 with 65. L3Harris is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Boeing Space is based in Arlington, United States, L3Harris in Melbourne, United States. Boeing Space: Subsidiary. L3Harris: Public. Boeing Space is named in 0 signals and L3Harris in 109. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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