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NTS-3 Satellite on Track for Delivery This Year, L3Harris Says

Frank Wolfe

Friday, April 1st, 2022

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NTS-3 Satellite on Track for Delivery This Year, L3Harris Says

An L3Harris employee works on the NTS-3 experimental satellite at the company plant in Palm Bay, Fla. (L3Harris Photo)

L3Harris [LHX] is on track with the building of the 1,100 pound experimental Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3), which is to launch aboard the first operational United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket next March, an L3Harris official said on Apr. 1. "We are still on track to deliver [the NTS-3 satellite] at the end of this year," Colin Mitchell, vice president and general manager of L3Harris' radio frequency division, said in a telephone interview. ULA is a partnership between Lockheed…

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