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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In 2021, Lockheed Martin Ventures screened more than 1,000 start-up companies working in artificial intelligence, autonomy and robotics, cyber security, and quantum computing.
Since 2007, the Lockheed Martin Ventures fund has invested in more than 70 startup companies.
In November, the U.S. Space Force ordered three GPS 3F satellites from Lockheed Martin for $737,000,000 under a 2018 agreement worth $7,200,000,000 for up to 22 spacecraft.
Lockheed Martin terminated its $4,400,000,000 acquisition deal for Aerojet Rocketdyne in February 2022, leaving Aerojet Rocketdyne an independent company.
Two Pony Express 2 smallsats launching in early 2023 will demonstrate mesh networking, tactical communications, and Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat™ and HiveStar™ distributed application technologies.
Lockheed Martin will launch three self-funded small satellites for the Space-Augmented JADO Environment (SAJE) test bed in early 2023, consisting of two Pony Express 2 satellites and one Tactical ISR and Communications satellite (TacSat).
Lockheed Martin will launch a constellation of self-funded small satellites in early 2023 to demonstrate space-enabled global battlefield awareness, sensing, and connectivity.
Lockheed Martin announced plans in December 2020 to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4,400,000,000.
The Federal Trade Commission sued in January 2022 to block Lockheed Martin’s planned acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne on grounds that the deal would create a monopoly for rocket and missile propulsion systems.
Lockheed Martin terminated its agreement to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne in February 2022 after the FTC opposed the deal.
The first of the three Lockheed Martin Next Gen OPIR GEO satellites is scheduled to launch in 2025.
Lockheed Martin was selected by NASA to further refine concepts for a lightning mapper instrument and the spacecraft bus for NOAA’s GeoXO weather satellites.
Lockheed Martin will refine a concept for the GeoXO spacecraft bus under a $5,000,000 Phase A contract.
Lockheed Martin builds the Geostationary Lightning Mapper and the Solar Ultraviolet Imager on the current GOES-R Series geostationary weather satellites.
LM 2100 satellites can be equipped with an Augmentation System Port Interface (ASPIN) designed and implemented by Lockheed Martin.
Rocket Lab and Lockheed Martin reached an agreement on 2022-07-27 to supply solar cells and radiation-hardened assemblies for the geostationary Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) satellites.
The second Tracking Layer launch, planned for March 2023, will include all four L3Harris satellites and additional satellites from the Transport Layer Tranche 0 produced by Lockheed Martin and York Space.
Lockheed Martin won a $5,000,000 contract to help define NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Spacecraft Phase A Study.
For more than 50 years, Lockheed Martin has built and launched more than 120 weather and environmental spacecraft for U.S. civil and military agencies.
Lockheed Martin Space is one of two teams selected for a $5,000,000 contract to refine the concept for the GeoXO lightning mapper.