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 and AvMC will jointly develop and demonstrate space-enabled defense systems under the CRADA.
The upcoming Tranche 0 mission is projected to launch 11 communications satellites (10 made by Lockheed Martin and one made by York Space) and two missile-tracking satellites made by SpaceX.
Since DEUCSI began in 2017, companies that have won contracts under the program include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ball Aerospace, SES, Iridium, and SpaceX.
The Space Force Next-Gen OPIR program includes five satellites: two polar satellites from Northrop Grumman and three geosynchronous satellites being produced by Lockheed Martin under a $4,900,000,000 contract awarded in 2021.
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are developing sensor payloads for the Lockheed Martin-built OPIR geosynchronous satellites.
Lockheed Martin is part of the Blue Origin-led National Team that won a NASA contract to develop and demonstrate a human landing system under NASA’s Human Landing System program.
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Crescent Space Services announced plans for a similar lunar data relay constellation in March 2023.
Lockheed Martin opted in 2020 to conduct a U.K. Pathfinder launch from SaxaVord Spaceport using a vehicle provided by ABL Space Systems instead of Sutherland Spaceport.
Lockheed Martin Space will create a new National Security Space line of business that incorporates classified and defense portfolios and aligns programs that support military space, mission solutions, and special programs customers.
Maria Demaree leads Lockheed Martin’s enterprise JADC2 corporate initiative and oversees the development of an integrated product strategy across the company’s business areas.
Each LM LINUSS spacecraft carries a Lockheed Martin-built electro-optical payload deck.
Lockheed Martin reported $66,000,000,000 in sales in 2022.
On 2023-05-04, Lockheed Martin consolidated several businesses focused on space into three sectors: Commercial Civil Space, National Security Space, and Strategic and Missile Defense.
Lockheed Martin's space backlog was nearly $30,000,000,000 as of January.
Space Systems Command awarded each of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon a $30,000,000 contract on 2023-05-02 to develop prototypes of a ground system for the ESS program.
Lockheed Martin designed the LM 400 multi-mission mid-sized satellite bus in a fully digital environment.
Lockheed Martin Corporation in Bethesda, Maryland received three 2022 ACO selections involving NASA Langley, NASA Glenn, NASA Goddard, NASA Marshall, and NASA Ames.
When launched, the LM 400 will feature a Lockheed Martin-produced Electronically Steered Array.
Lockheed Martin will advance in-space manufacturing technologies for thermoplastic composites, a low-cost material that requires less energy to produce in orbit compared to metal, and will test the technique in simulated space environments with several NASA centers.
SLC-6 was reactivated in the 1990s for a handful of Lockheed Martin Athena launches and was turned over to United Launch Alliance in 2006 for the Delta 4 program.