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 developed LunIR’s infrared sensor and cryocooler to operate in both lunar day and night and to map the lunar surface, detect materials, and collect thermal signatures.
Lockheed Martin built the SBIRS GEO-6 satellite through Lockheed Martin Space in Sunnyvale, California.
Lockheed Martin’s LM 2100 Combat Bus provides cyber hardening, resiliency features, enhanced spacecraft power, and improved propulsion and electronics.
Lockheed Martin Ventures intends to invest a very sizable portion of the additional $200,000,000 in technologies focused on the space domain.
Lockheed Martin is seeking opportunities in on-orbit logistics and is already investing in Orbit Fab.
Lockheed Martin Ventures plans to double its investments in tech startups from $200,000,000 to $400,000,000 as of 2022-08-03.
Terran Orbital's near-term focus is to complete 10 satellite buses for Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency's Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Terran Orbital delivered the first of ten satellite buses to Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 Transport Layer.
Terran Orbital expects to deliver all ten satellite buses in 2022 to Lockheed Martin in support of the SDA Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Terran Orbital expects to deliver all 10 Tranche 0 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin by the end of 2022.
Three Next-Gen OPIR satellites are being built by Lockheed Martin and the first Next-Gen OPIR satellite is scheduled to launch in 2025.
Lockheed Martin will perform GeoXO lightning mapper work at its Space facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area and spacecraft work at its Littleton, Colorado location.
NASA selected Lockheed Martin to further refine concepts for the lightning mapper instrument and the spacecraft bus for NOAA’s GeoXO weather satellites.
Lockheed Martin built the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the Solar Ultraviolet Imager instruments on NOAA’s current GOES weather satellites.
Lockheed Martin will refine a concept for the GeoXO spacecraft bus under a $5,000,000 Phase A contract.
LM 2100 satellites can be equipped with an Augmentation System Port Interface (ASPIN) that implements Lockheed Martin’s open-source Mission Augmentation Port standard.
Lockheed Martin Space is one of two teams selected for a $5,000,000 contract to refine the concept for the GeoXO lightning mapper.
Lockheed Martin has built and launched more than 120 weather and environmental spacecraft for U.S. civil and military agencies over the past 50 years.
The SBIRS GEO-6 satellite has a reported value of $1 billion, is built on the Lockheed Martin LM 2100 bus, and carries a sensor payload developed by Northrop Grumman.
Lockheed Martin doubled its venture capital fund from $200,000,000 to $400,000,000.