Raytheon has been developing cutting-edge sensor payloads, instruments, and associated mission software for more than four decades, working with all of the major prime contractors and government customers.

Whether flying in a variety of orbits, or on the ground on Mars, our hardware and software solutions support a number of critical missions including:

  • Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
  • Weather and climate forecasting
  • Missile warning and missile defense
  • Operationally responsive space
  • Space exploration

Our expertise covers a vast array of sensor technologies in electro-optic and radio frequency sensors.

Let us and our customers show you what our sensor systems can do. 

AIRSS
Advanced Infrared Satellite System (AIRSS)

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
AMSR-E at NASA
AMSR-E Data at NSIDC

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
Raytheon AWIPS
NOAA AWIPS Site
NOAA  AWIPS Map Database 
Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) 
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)  

Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) for Glory
Raytheon Glory APS

ARTEMIS
Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer (ARTEMIS)

Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
EPA GEOSS
NOAA GEOSS

Japanese Advanced Meteorological Imaging (JAMI)
Raytheon JAMI
Japan’s JAMI site

Miniature Thermal Emission Spectromenter (Mini-TES)
Arizona State University Mars Rover Exploration -
Raytheon’s Mini-TES site

Miniaturized Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) Sensor
Raytheon Mini-RF

Moderate Resolution Imaging System (MODIS)
MODIS at NASA
MODIS Images of the Day
Raytheon MODIS site

Responder™
Raytheon Responder™

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
NOAA NPOESS
Raytheon NPOESS

Sea-Viewing Wide-Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWIFS)
NASA SeaWIFS
Raytheon SeaWIFS 

SeaWinds
SeaWinds at NASA JPL

Space Tracking & Surveillance System (STSS)
Northrup Grumman STSS
Missile Defense Agency
Raytheon STSS

Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS)
Arizona State Mars Odyssey
NASA Mars Odyssey
Raytheon THEMIS

Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES)
Arizona State Mars Surveyor
Raytheon TES

Visible/Infrared Imager Spectrometer Suite (VIIRS)
NOAA NPOESS
Raytheon VIIRS 

Visible/Infrared Spin Scan-Radiometer (VISSR)
Raytheon VISSR

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