The US Space Force has declared operational acceptance of the Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS), the system’s designer and manufacturer, L3Harris Technologies, announced on 30 September 2025.
ATLAS successfully integrates space domain awareness, space command and control (C2), intelligence and operational and system-readiness-relevant data to enable warfighters to successfully respond to emerging anti-satellite threats.
“This pivotal milestone aligns with Chief of Space Operations General B Chance Saltzman’s top priorities at the Space Force to help ensure space superiority: an essential element of our country’s national security,” Ed Zoiss, president of Space and Airborne Systems at L3Harris, was quoted as saying in a company press release. “The Space Force requires timely, accurate and relevant information to avoid operational surprise, and ATLAS meets this demand by providing essential and actionable space domain awareness.”
In March 2025 L3Harris announced that it had received a USD 90 million (EUR 76.8 million) follow-on, sole-source contract from US Space Force to further advance US space domain awareness by augmenting the capabilities of ATLAS, including by modernising its C2 and enhancing its tracking of satellites and space debris.
