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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NASA and DARPA selected Lockheed Martin to develop a spacecraft to demonstrate nuclear thermal propulsion technologies.
Kirk Shireman, vice president of Lunar Exploration Campaigns at Lockheed Martin Space, supports using nuclear thermal propulsion to transport humans and materials to the Moon and to enable a safe, reusable nuclear tug for cislunar operations.
Lockheed Martin partnered with BWX Technologies to develop the nuclear reactor and produce the HALEU fuel for the DRACO project.
Lockheed Martin won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project.
Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado received $9,100,000 from NASA to perform joining demonstrations in space.
Lockheed Martin sought to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4,400,000,000 in December 2020, and that acquisition was blocked by the Federal Trade Commission.
Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the Juno spacecraft.
Lockheed Martin won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project.
Lockheed Martin has partnered with BWX Technologies to develop the nuclear reactor and produce the HALEU fuel for the DRACO project.
Lockheed Martin has won a DARPA contract to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project.
Lockheed Martin partnered with BWX Technologies to develop the nuclear reactor and produce the HALEU fuel for the DRACO project.
Lockheed Martin is partnering with BWXT on DRACO, with BWXT providing the spacecraft’s nuclear reactor and its high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) fuel.
Nearly two years earlier, Lockheed Martin sought to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne in a $4,400,000,000 bid that the Federal Trade Commission blocked.
NASA and DARPA selected Lockheed Martin to develop a spacecraft for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program on 2024-07-26.
Lockheed Martin is developing a cislunar transporter vehicle to refuel Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander.
Lockheed Martin established Crescent Space earlier in the year to provide lunar communications and navigation services.
Lockheed Martin states that achieving the Space 2050 vision will require new infrastructure including computational capacity in cislunar space.
Lockheed Martin selected 2050 as the target timeframe for its technology report to allow time to develop disruptive technologies and capabilities.
Lockheed Martin projects that by 2050 more people will travel to low-Earth orbit, the moon, and Mars, creating demand for habitats and surface mobility vehicles.
Lockheed Martin Space is collaborating with Firefly Aerospace for an upcoming technology demonstration to help create a resilient launch environment.