Harris Corporation has received an $84 million contract to produce Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3), an experimental satellite that will demonstrate new position, navigation and timing capabilities to improve the resiliency of the Global Positioning System (GPS), the Melbourne, FL-based company announced April 8.
The Space Enterprise Consortium selected Harris as the prime system
integrator to design, develop, integrate and test NTS-3, including ground
mission applications. The contract was signed in December 2018. Scheduled to
launch in 2022, the position, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite will
simultaneously broadcast military and earth coverage signals at increased power
levels – enabling it to operate in contested environments.
The time keeping system will use diverse timing sources to improve
mission stability, anomaly detection and correction. The system’s design will
enable Harris to rapidly develop and deploy new waveforms to reprogram and
update the satellite throughout its lifecycle.
“The Harris solution extends beyond the traditional bounds of
space-based reprogrammable payloads to enable new techniques to combat evolving
threats,” said Chris Forseth, vice president and general manager, Harris Space
Superiority business.
Harris will leverage its 40-plus years of Harris GPS and space antenna expertise to support all phases of the project.
Source: Harris
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