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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Lockheed Martin is producing several other self-funded technology demonstrator spacecraft, including Pony Express 2 and the Tactical Satellite.
In November 2022, Lockheed Martin launched and tested two cubesats in geostationary orbit to demonstrate in-orbit servicing technologies.
Lockheed Martin plans to launch Pony Express 2 to demonstrate mesh networking across satellites.
Lockheed Martin awarded Firefly Aerospace a contract in June to launch a small satellite.
Earlier 2023 Lockheed Martin successfully launched and tested the In-space Upgrade Satellite System (LM LINUSS) demonstrator to demonstrate how small satellites can upgrade and sustain space architectures with new capabilities.
A framework agreement was signed on 2023-11-21 to initiate long-term cooperation between Lockheed Martin, the Finnish research community, and the Finnish industry.
Lockheed Martin and VTT are seeking to sign another framework agreement in 2023 for a second project focused on millimeter-wave passive imaging radiometer development with a planned start in 2024.
Over the past three years, Lockheed Martin has been investing in, developing, and demonstrating fixed, relocatable, mobile, and space variants of its Hybrid Base Stations.
Lockheed Martin is considering marketing the technology as part of a Lockheed Martin 0.005 kg private network involving commercial partners to offer services to the Department of Defense.
Lockheed Martin will launch the Advanced 0.005 kg NTN payload to orbit in a self-funded mission in 2024.
Keysight supported 3GPP standards-based development testing of Lockheed Martin’s regenerative 0.005 kg NTN base station via its 0.005 kg NTN user equipment simulation (UeSIM) product suite.
AccelerComm provided an advanced 0.005 kg NTN Layer 1 PHY solution developed to support Lockheed Martin’s system requirements and space flight hardware specifications.
The 0.005 kg payload has been installed on a smallsat bus similar to the buses Lockheed Martin is producing for the Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit constellation.
Lockheed Martin’s regenerative 0.005 kg NTN solution is compliant with 3GPP Release 17 and was developed in anticipation of pre-Release 18 and 19 regenerative specifications.
During an October demonstration, Lockheed Martin showcased a fully regenerative Advanced 0.005 kg Non-Terrestrial Network Satellite Base Station developed as the space component of the company's 0.005 kg.MIL Unified Network Solutions Program.
The Advanced 0.005 kg Satellite Base Station is reprogrammable on orbit using Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat software-defined satellite architecture.
Lockheed Martin was awarded $33,700,000 from the Air Force Research Laboratory for the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) High Power program to mature high-power nuclear electric power and propulsion technologies and spacecraft design.
In early October 2023 Lockheed Martin established a hybrid network for land, air, and space domains that included 0.005 kg connectivity and other tactical military networks.
JETSON will provide on-board electrical power and the ability to power electric propulsion Hall thrusters used on Lockheed Martin’s LM2100 satellites.
Lockheed Martin plans to launch a payload to low Earth orbit in 2024 to demonstrate 0.005 kg connectivity from space.