Primes and human spaceflight
L3Harris Technologies
The Melbourne headquartered prime, the largest Florida headquartered company in this chain, which completes the $4.7 billion Aerojet Rocketdyne acquisition on 28 July 2023 and then sells majority ownership of the space propulsion business to AE Industrial Partners while retaining a noncontrolling interest [LHXAJ][LHXSEC][SNRD][WT26][WLHX].
- Entity type
- company
- Kind
- company
- Lane
- Primes and human spaceflight
- Place
- Melbourne, Brevard County
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1895
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 2021 · 2021: L3Harris Technologies operates site L3Harris Palm Bay spacecraft campus (2021 onward)
- Role
- prime contractor headquartered in Florida
- Status as of the cutoff
- Operating. Headquartered in Melbourne; acquired Aerojet Rocketdyne in 2023 and divested the space propulsion business in 2026.
- Entity status
- operating
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 4
- Betweenness
- 0.0194 on the full graph · 0.0000 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [LHXIR] [LHXAJ] [LHXSEC] [SNRD] [WT26] [WLHX]
Connections
Ownership and corporate lineage
- acquired →Aerojet Rocketdyneacquisition signed 18 December 2022 at $58 per share, $4.7 billion including net debt, completed 28 July 2023 [LHXAJ] [LHXSEC]2023
- minority owner of →2026 onward
Property, facility and development
- operates site →2021 onward
Person role
- leads ←2022 onward