Raytheon, an RTX business, has long been recognized as a leader in advanced systems for defense and space. Now, the company’s space portfolio is extending its services to help emerging commercial space companies succeed with cutting-edge ground solutions. As companies accelerate innovation through on-orbit capabilities, Raytheon enables them to maximize constellation utilization through proven, cyber-hardened ground solutions, agile development and artificial intelligence-enabled capabilities.
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Many commercial space companies are focused on unique intellectual property (IP) offerings using satellites for communications, remote sensing, or navigation and differentiating themselves in areas such as phenomenology, accuracy, revisit rate, or business model. But building and managing mission infrastructure can be an expensive and time-consuming task that limits the ability to rapidly bring systems online, begin generating revenue and do it efficiently.
As a supplier of end-to-end systems and components, Raytheon offers mature enterprise end-to-end solutions including space command and control, mission management, order management, processing, distribution, sensemaking, analytics, and secure edge ground systems. Partnering with Raytheon empowers customers to focus on their core value proposition while using Raytheon’s proven and enhanced capabilities, accelerating speed to market, reducing risk, and providing a competitive edge.
Ground: Begin With the End in Mind
For many early-stage companies, the ground segment takes a back seat to spacecraft engineering requirements. This can fail to fully monetize the space asset after launch. As a provider’s constellation grows in complexity, this problem is compounded, leaving underutilized space vehicles in orbit. Raytheon’s ground solutions, enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), maximize utilization of the constellation with the ability to scale and can be responsive to evolving tasking needs. Raytheon offers tiered pricing that grows with the constellation, giving emerging commercial providers a competitive entry point. Utilization and responsiveness are directly correlated to revenue, and Raytheon has demonstrated early returns on investment.
Raytheon’s mission management capabilities, matured over 50 years, can multiply revenue potential from initial operations through deployment of the full architecture. Beginning with an end-to-end view of every aspect of the space system eliminates extensive iteration costs down the road and ensures ground capabilities can adapt with the constellation as it scales. Customers that work with Raytheon can leverage the experience necessary to orchestrate satellite constellations and process the ever-increasing amounts of data they collect to deliver actionable insights to decision-makers around the world.
Tap New Revenue Streams
Raytheon’s space team also helps Earth observation companies discover and tap into missed revenue opportunities for additional downstream applications of their data. For example, a company with an extensive historical data archive can create new product offerings with Raytheon’s value-added products and services such as 3D point clouds, digital surface models, and change detection product offerings.
Customers can leverage Raytheon’s breadth of analytics expertise across resolution, accuracy, coverage, and sensor types like electro-optical, hyperspectral, infrared and synthetic aperture radar, to bring new capabilities to market and compete with established competitors.
Raytheon’s space-ground solutions provide commercial space companies with the tools and expertise needed to efficiently scale their operations, accelerate speed to market, and maximize the potential of their constellations.
