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L3Harris and Northrop Grumman win SDA contracts
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2022, 9:56 AM ET (1356 GMT)
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman won $1.3 billion in Space Development Agency (SDA) contracts to build missile tracking satellites. SDA announced Monday it selected the two companies to each build 14 satellites for its Tracking Layer Tranche 1, a constellation designed to track the latest generation of ballistic and hypersonic missiles being developed by countries like Russia and China. The L3Harris contract is valued at $700 million and the Northrop contract at $617 million. The satellites will be launched in batches of seven starting in April 2025.
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