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raytheonintelligenceandspace.com. Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RIS) was one of the four business segments of U.S. defense and aerospace conglomerate RTX Corporation. [5] Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, RIS has a total employment of 39,000 and 2019 sales of US$15 billion. Roy Azevedo is the segment's president.
Earth at night as imaged by VIIRS. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is a sensor designed and manufactured by the Raytheon Company on board the polar-orbiting Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP), NOAA-20, and NOAA-21 weather satellites. [1] VIIRS is one of five key instruments onboard Suomi NPP, launched on ...
Originally founded as LTV Electro Systems in the mid-1960s, the company changed its name to E-Systems in the early 1970s. [4] [5] In 1995, Raytheon Company acquired E-Systems, Inc., [6] a Texas-based company that designed, developed, produced, and serviced high-technology systems including surveillance, verification, and aircraft ground-land navigation equipment.
RTX Corporation. RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation, [3][4] is an American multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. It is one of the largest aerospace and defense manufacturers in the world by revenue and market capitalization, as well as one of the largest providers of ...
Raytheon was awarded the Next Generation GPS Operational Control System (OCX) contract on 25 February 2010. [12] The first satellite in the series was projected to launch in 2014, [13] but significant delays [14] pushed the launch to December 2018. [8] [15] The tenth and final GPS Block III launch is projected in FY2026. [16]
Artist illustration of the NOAA-20 Satellite. The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) is the latest generation of U.S. polar-orbiting, non-geosynchronous, environmental satellites. JPSS will provide the global environmental data used in numerical weather prediction models for forecasts, and scientific data used for climate monitoring.
The United States Space Surveillance Network (SSN) detects, tracks, catalogs and identifies artificial objects orbiting Earth, e.g. active/inactive satellites, spent rocket bodies, or fragmentation debris. The system is the responsibility of United States Space Command and operated by the United States Space Force and its functions are:
Raytheon is a developer and manufacturer of radars (including AESAs), electro-optical sensors, and other advanced electronics systems for airborne, naval and ground based military applications. Examples include: APG-63/APG-70 radars for the F-15 Eagle. APG-65/APG-73/APG-79 radars for the F/A-18 Hornet.