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 space, Integrated Broadcast Service payloads operate from geosynchronous orbit satellites such as the Mobile User Objective System developed by Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman previously won contracts for Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites.
The 72 transport satellites built by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are part of the third generation of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
The Space Development Agency awarded prototype agreements totaling $1,500,000,000 to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to build data transport satellites for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.
Lockheed Martin is building 42 transport spacecraft for SDA Tranche 1.
The Space Development Agency expects to launch the 72 transport satellites built by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman in 2026.
Lockheed Martin provided 10 spacecraft for SDA Tranche 0, which will launch later 2023.
Lockheed Martin opened a 20,000-square-foot small-satellite processing facility on 2023-08-04 where it will build and test its SDA satellite as well as other spacecraft and technology demonstrators.
Lockheed Martin's 10 Tranche 0 Transport Layer satellites are scheduled to launch in 2023.
Lockheed Martin opened a 20,000-square-foot small satellite processing center scaled to efficiently assemble, integrate, and test smallsats.
With the T2TL Beta award, Lockheed Martin will deliver at least 88 data communications satellites for the Space Development Agency's low-Earth orbit military constellation.
The Space Development Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed-price agreement valued at approximately $816,000,000 to build 36 Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta satellites.
Lockheed Martin's small satellite processing center is scaled to deliver 180 satellites or more per year.
Lockheed Martin's small satellite processing center will house the company's Tranche 1 Transport Layer and Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta satellites and features six parallel assembly lines and dedicated test chambers.
In February 2022, the Space Development Agency selected Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and York Space Systems to each produce 42 satellites for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Lockheed Martin’s contract for 36 Tranche 2 satellites is worth $816,000,000.
The Beta variant of the Tranche 2 Transport Layer vehicles are similar to the 126 Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites that the Space Development Agency ordered last year from Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and York Space.
The Lockheed Martin small satellite processing center is scaled to deliver 180 satellites or more per year.
Lockheed Martin opened a 20,000-square-foot small satellite processing center scaled to assemble, integrate, and test smallsats.
Lockheed Martin’s 10 Tranche 0 Transport Layer satellites are scheduled to launch in 2023.