Harris [NYSE: HRS], a Melbourne, Fla.-based manufacturer, integrator and services supplier of satellite communications systems, has been awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] to provide an unfurlable mesh reflector for the JCSAT-9 geostationary telecommunications satellite. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The high-power, hybrid JCSAT-9, owned and operated by Japan’s JSAT Corp., will carry C-, Ku- and S-band transponders that will provide satellite communications service throughout Asia and Japan following its launch, scheduled for 2005.