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 first LM 400 Tech Demonstrator planned for a 2023 launch will carry a Lockheed Martin-produced narrowband communications electronically steered array payload.
The Tranche 2 Transport Layer satellites will be similar to satellites currently being developed by York Space, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Bob Behnken retired from NASA in November 2022 and joined Lockheed Martin’s space division as director of technology acceleration.
Lockheed Martin signed a 2021 contract with ABL Space Systems to launch as many as 58 missions on ABL’s RS1 rocket through 2029.
The first Lockheed Martin LM 400 rolled off the company’s digital factory production line and is advancing toward a planned 2023 launch.
Lockheed Martin plans to launch the first demonstration mission of its LM 400 mid-sized satellite bus in 2023.
The LM 400 Tech Demonstrator planned for a 2023 launch will carry a Lockheed Martin-produced narrowband communications electronically steered array payload.
Lockheed Martin will produce LM 400 satellites at a new 3.5 million square-foot facility in Denver.
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and Aerojet Rocketdyne team developed low-cost advanced manufacturing technologies for HAWC with a focus on extreme durability to reduce piece and part cost.
Viper Shield is scheduled to return to the Lockheed Martin Systems Integration Lab in the second quarter of 2023 with newly integrated hardware and software to demonstrate full integration of the next planned increment of capabilities with the F-16 Block 70/72 FMS aircraft.
In late 2022 Viper Shield demonstrated interoperability with the APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array radar during testing at the Lockheed Martin Systems Integration Lab.
The AN/ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield completed a critical design review milestone with Lockheed Martin as a partner and the U.S. Air Force observing.
The Federal Trade Commission blocked Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4,400,000,000 bid for Aerojet Rocketdyne last year.
DARPA started the DRACO program with three Phase 1 awards in April 2021 to teams led by Blue Origin, General Atomics, and Lockheed Martin to develop preliminary reactor and spacecraft designs.
The November 2022 Space Systems Command contract action means Lockheed Martin is contracted to build GPS IIIF Space Vehicles SV11–SV20.
In November 2022, Space Systems Command exercised a third production option valued at approximately $744,000,000 for procurement of three additional GPS IIIF satellites from Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin completed production under its original GPS III SV1–10 contract.
Lockheed Martin will provide its mid-sized, rapidly-producible LM400 bus to Raytheon to support delivery of initial warfighting capability with Missile Track Custody Epoch 1.
Lockheed Martin built 10 GPS III satellites under a 2008 contract from the U.S. Air Force and will produce at least 10 more GPS IIIF satellites.
Lockheed Martin won a $1.18 billion, 19-year contract in September to develop and operate the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) for the governments of Australia and New Zealand.