L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; Northrop Grumman Space ranks 9 with 85. L3Harris is ahead on production, progress and positioning. Level on deployment, commercials, technology, firepower and leverage. L3Harris is based in Melbourne, United States, Northrop Grumman Space in Dulles, United States. L3Harris: Public. Northrop Grumman Space: Subsidiary. L3Harris is named in 109 signals and Northrop Grumman Space in 112.
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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Northrop Grumman designs, builds and operates spacecraft for reconnaissance, missile tracking, communications and cargo, including SDA satellites and Cygnus.
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Northrop Grumman's space unit spans Cygnus ISS cargo, solid rocket motors (GEM/OmegA heritage), missile-warning primes, and an SDA Tranche 3 win, and it holds the servicing category's only commercial operating record via the flown MEV-1 and MEV-2 GEO life-extension servicers. It is the quiet incumbent while startups (Astroscale, Starfish) hold the servicing contracts pipeline, though a Northrop launch anomaly stranded AST's BB7. Segment financials are group-scoped and not broken out (a filings pass owed).
112 signals name Northrop Grumman Space.
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L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; Northrop Grumman Space ranks 9 with 85. L3Harris is ahead on production, progress and positioning. Level on deployment, commercials, technology, firepower and leverage. L3Harris is based in Melbourne, United States, Northrop Grumman Space in Dulles, United States. L3Harris: Public. Northrop Grumman Space: Subsidiary. L3Harris is named in 109 signals and Northrop Grumman Space in 112.
L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; Northrop Grumman Space ranks 9 with 85. L3Harris is ahead on production, progress and positioning. Level on deployment, commercials, technology, firepower and leverage. L3Harris is based in Melbourne, United States, Northrop Grumman Space in Dulles, United States. L3Harris: Public. Northrop Grumman Space: Subsidiary. L3Harris is named in 109 signals and Northrop Grumman Space in 112. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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