{"title":"HEO vs L3Harris: Defense & intelligence compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/heo-vs-l3harris","comparison":"L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; HEO ranks 85 with 66. L3Harris is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on technology. HEO is based in Australia, L3Harris in Melbourne, United States. L3Harris: Public. HEO is named in 15 signals and L3Harris in 109.","companies":[{"name":"HEO","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/heo","city":null,"country":"Australia","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"HEO is an Australian company (Sydney) and the category creator of commercial non-Earth imaging (photographing satellites from other satellites), with seven first-generation camera missions and its Adler Mk2 GEO-hardened camera flying in 2026, plus >50 sensors accessible after a Planet SkySat integration (August 2026). It is the asset-light space-domain-awareness model (cameras in the right place, not big satellites), acquired Satellogic's NewSat-34 (Australia's first sovereign sub-meter imaging asset), and moved its NRO relationship to operational integration (a February 2026 CSO contract). Revenue is estimated at 10-100m (the NRO contract is small-dollar, seven-figure class).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":85,"score":66,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":4,"technology":8},"why":"HEO sells Non-Earth Imaging services to government and intelligence customers, providing imagery of spacecraft and other objects in orbit.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":15,"facts_total":12},{"name":"L3Harris","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/l3harris","city":"Melbourne","country":"United States","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":3,"score":91,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"L3Harris builds spacecraft for defense and intelligence missions, including SDA missile-warning satellites, and supplies optical, communications and guidance systems for space missions.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":109,"facts_total":74}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}