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 72 satellites ordered from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman comprise the Beta portion of Tranche 2 Transport Layer.
To date Lockheed Martin has won Space Development Agency contracts for 88 satellites and Northrop Grumman has won orders for 92 satellites.
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.
With the Tranche 2 award, Lockheed Martin will deliver at least 88 data communications satellites for the Space Development Agency’s LEO military constellation.
The Space Development Agency awarded contracts worth $1,500,000,000 to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin on 2023-08-21 to build and operate 72 satellites.
Terran Orbital raised $255,000,000 in total proceeds from the SPAC merger when including a concurrent PIPE supported by companies including Lockheed Martin.
Terran Orbital has a smaller deal with Lockheed Martin to deliver 10 satellites for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency missile-tracking LEO constellation.
The Space Development Agency has ordered 52 satellites from Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris are building Space Development Agency satellites using commercial buses from Terran Orbital, Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, and Maxar Technologies, respectively.
Lockheed Martin’s NGI solution is designed to increase warfighter capability and provide an improved defensive solution for complex battlespaces now and in the future.
The facility includes a 20,000-square-foot low bay clean room on Lockheed Martin’s Waterton campus.
Lockheed Martin will use the new facility for assembly, integration, and testing to optimize relationships with its strategic partners and diverse supplier base.
Lockheed Martin will assemble and test the Tranche 1 satellites at a new facility designed for small-satellite production.
The Lockheed Martin facility features a 20,000-square-foot, low bay clean room located on the Waterton campus.
Lockheed Martin’s 42 Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites will move into processing in the new factory to support a 2024 launch.
Lockheed Martin is building 42 space vehicles for the SDA’s Tranche 1 transport layer constellation.
Lockheed Martin is developing more than 50 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer.
Under a separate $187,500,000 contract awarded in August 2020, Lockheed Martin built 10 satellites for the Tranche 0 Transport Layer.
The Space Development Agency contracted Lockheed Martin to build 10 Tranche 0 Transport Layer satellites that are ready for launch this summer.
Lockheed Martin is developing more than 50 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer.