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 was awarded responsibility for providing 42 space vehicles for T1TL to be deployed in two Low Earth Orbit orbital planes.
Lockheed Martin developed the Curio spacecraft bus for NASA’s Janus and Lunar Trailblazer smallsat missions.
Parsec will use satellites designed and built by Lockheed Martin using the Curio spacecraft bus.
Innoflight will deliver flight processors with on-orbit data storage, including Battle Management Command, Control and Communications (BMC3), to Lockheed Martin for T1TL.
Lockheed Martin created Crescent Space Services LLC on 2023-03-28 to offer communications and navigation services for government and commercial lunar missions.
Lockheed Martin, Terran Orbital, and Innoflight previously partnered on the SDA Tranche 0 Transport Layer (T0TL) program.
Innoflight will deliver Type-1 mesh network End Cryptographic Units (ECUs) to Lockheed Martin for T1TL.
Lockheed Martin will produce and deliver the Parsec spacecraft to Crescent Space.
Crescent Space Services LLC is a commercial company launched by Lockheed Martin that provides infrastructure-as-a-service for lunar missions.
SBIRS GEO-6, built by Lockheed Martin, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on 2022-08-04.
SBIRS GEO-6’s LM2100 Combat Bus (Lockheed Martin) is an enhanced space vehicle that provides greater resiliency and cyber-hardening, improved spacecraft power, propulsion and electronics, common components and procedures to streamline manufacturing, and a flexible design that reduces the cost to incorporate future modernized sensor suites.
Lockheed Martin signed a contract in April 2021 for as many as 58 RS1 launches through the end of the decade.
Lockheed Martin selected the RS1 to perform its U.K. Pathfinder launch from the SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands later in 2023.
Terran Orbital raised $100,000,000 from Lockheed Martin in October 2022.
Lockheed Martin invested $100,000,000 in Terran Orbital in October 2022 and extended its Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Terran Orbital to 2035.
Terran Orbital is currently building a set of 42 satellite buses for Lockheed Martin for the Transport Layer Tranche 1 contract with the Space Development Agency.
Innoflight will deliver Type-1 "mesh network" End Cryptographic Units, network Internet Protocol routers with Multi-Protocol Label Switching, network Ethernet switches, flight processors with on-orbit data storage including Battle Management Command, Control and Communications (BMC3), and precision navigation timing to Lockheed Martin for T1TL.
Lockheed Martin was awarded responsibility to provide 42 space vehicles for T1TL to be deployed in two Low Earth Orbit orbital planes.
Lockheed Martin is offering commercial licenses for its Horizon™ Command & Control and Compass™ Mission Planning software.
Lockheed Martin has used versions of Horizon and Compass software in more than 50 spacecraft.