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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The Lockheed Martin 0.005 kg payload was developed using open radio access network (Open RAN) principles to enable interoperable, non-proprietary subcomponents.
Lockheed Martin completed a hardware-in-the-loop test of a 0.005 kg non-terrestrial network payload in October 2023.
Radisys supplied 0.005 kg NTN Layer 2/3 and 0.005 kg Stand Alone Core software to integrate with Lockheed Martin’s Layer 1 and RIC solutions.
Keysight supported 3GPP standards-based development testing of Lockheed Martin’s regenerative 0.005 kg NTN base station using their 0.005 kg NTN user equipment simulation (UeSIM) product suite.
Lockheed Martin conducted a successful October lab demonstration validating its space payload designed to deliver global advanced communications capabilities from orbit.
Lockheed Martin’s standards-based approach for the Advanced 0.005 kg Satellite Base Station is compliant with 3GPP Release 17 and was developed in anticipation of pre-Release 18 and 19 regenerative specifications.
Radisys supplied 0.005 kg NTN Layer 2/3 and 0.005 kg Stand Alone Core software and worked with Lockheed Martin to enable interface implementation for integration with L1 and RIC solutions.
Lockheed Martin will launch the 0.005 kg NTN payload to orbit in 2024 on a self-funded mission to prove its capability to connect the globe.
The Advanced 0.005 kg Satellite Base Station is a central element of Lockheed Martin’s vision to provide global 0.005 kg connectivity.
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.
Lockheed Martin has invested in, developed, and demonstrated fixed, relocatable, mobile, and space variants of its Hybrid Base Stations over the past three years.
Lockheed Martin developed the Advanced 0.005 kg NTN Satellite Base Station as a space component of its 0.005 kg.MIL Unified Network Solutions Program.
Lockheed Martin connected the Advanced 0.005 kg Satellite Base Station to industry-leading prototype NTN user equipment through a space communications channel emulator that introduced doppler and delay parameters consistent with a satellite Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
Lockheed Martin developed and operates the current proprietary ground stations for SBIRS and Next-Gen OPIR.
The Space Systems Command started the FORGE program in 2019 to create an open architecture for missile-warning ground systems to replace the current proprietary ground stations developed and operated by Lockheed Martin.
The NASA-funded, Lockheed Martin-built OSIRIS-REx return craft completed a seven-year, $1,200,000,000 mission and touched down in the Utah desert on 2023-09-24 with samples collected from asteroid Bennu in 2020.
Lockheed Martin awarded Terran Orbital Corporation an Engineering Change Proposal to host additional payloads.
Terran Orbital is currently building 42 satellite buses for Lockheed Martin to support Lockheed Martin's $700,000,000 contract for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL), which is scheduled for a late 2024 launch.
Terran Orbital was awarded a contract to provide 36 satellite buses to support Lockheed Martin's $816,000,000 contract for the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL), which is scheduled for late 2026.
Last year, Terran Orbital delivered 10 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin in support of Lockheed Martin's Tranche 0 Transport Layer contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA).