Lockheed Martin is a major American aerospace and defense company heavily involved in the space industry. As a manufacturer and systems integrator, they develop and produce commercial and military satellites, space probes, missile defense systems, and spacecraft, including NASA's Orion spacecraft. Lockheed Martin partners with organizations like NASA, ESA, and the U.S. Space Force, providing key technologies and services for space exploration, earth observation, and national security missions.
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In 2018, the UK government awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to conduct a launch from a UK spaceport.
The display included a scale model of an ABL Space Systems RS1 rocket featuring the logos of Lockheed Martin and the UK Space Agency.
Lockheed Martin selected ABL to carry out the planned UK Pathfinder mission.
Jesse Morehouse, business development director for PNT at Lockheed Martin Space, supports R-GPS smaller satellites as providing foundational PNT bandwidth and enabling multi-launch capacity while maintaining that GPS IIIF is necessary for the full suite of mission capabilities.
Lockheed Martin won the contract in 2018 to produce up to 22 GPS IIIF satellites.
Space Systems Command received the first mission payload for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous (NGG) sensing capability on 2024-08-30 in partnership with Lockheed Martin Space and Raytheon Technologies Corporation.
The NGG-1 payload was transported from Raytheon’s Mission Payload Facility in El Segundo, California to Lockheed Martin’s Space Vehicle Integration Facility in Sunnyvale, California following thermal vacuum chamber testing completed between 2024-04-26 and 2024-08-12.
Raytheon, L3Harris Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems are developing antennas and supporting technologies to provide military users access to commercial internet services in low, medium, and geostationary orbits using a common set of user terminal hardware.
Kenneth Possenriede worked for 35 years at Lockheed Martin Corporation in financial leadership positions including serving as Chief Financial Officer.
Terran Orbital is collaborating with Lockheed Martin to produce 18 space vehicles for the T2 Tracking Layer.
Terran Orbital is collaborating with Lockheed Martin to produce 36 space vehicles for the T2TL Beta variant.
Contracts totaling $575,000 were awarded to McDonnell Aircraft Corp., General Electric, Lockheed, and Martin in July 1960.
Lockheed Martin is both an investor in ABL Space Systems and a major customer that made a block buy of up to 58 RS1 launches in 2021.
Lockheed Martin plans to use RS1 for its U.K. Pathfinder launch for the U.K. Space Agency under a contract awarded in 2018.
Firefly Aerospace planned three more launches in the same year as the 2024-07-17 leadership change, with the next launch identified as a dedicated commercial mission for Lockheed Martin.
The UK Ministry of Defence awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Rhea Group earlier 2024 to develop satellite control systems for the ISTARI constellation.
DARPA awarded Lockheed Martin a $4,600,000 contract to develop AI tools for dynamic airborne missions under the Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program.
The U.S. Space Force GPS III Program Office, in partnership with NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, delivered two laser retroreflector arrays to Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin Space, based in Sunnyvale, California, was initially selected in 2018 to lead development of the OPIR satellites.
On 2024-06-21 the Pentagon awarded Lockheed Martin Space a $977,500,000 contract extension for the continued development, testing, and on-orbit support of two geosynchronous missile-warning satellites.