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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On 2022-02-17 Terran Orbital was awarded a contract by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics to build and support three microsatellite-class satellites.
Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract by the Space Development Agency for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer of the National Defense Space Architecture.
On 2022-02-28, the Space Development Agency awarded nearly $1,800,000,000 in contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems to build 126 satellites.
Lockheed Martin partnered with General Motors in May 2021 to design lunar rovers.
Terran Orbital and Lockheed Martin teamed on a 2020 contract to build satellites for the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency using small buses from Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems Inc.
Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace to develop mission payload designs as part of risk-reduction efforts to meet the U.S. Space Force imperative to launch the first NGG satellite by 2025.
Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon Technologies to provide a second mission payload for the NGG Block 0 missile warning satellite system.
Lockheed Martin built the GOES-T satellite in Littleton, Colorado based on the company’s A2100 satellite bus design.
Both competitive NGG payload teams were selected and placed under contract 45 days after the NGG prime contract was awarded to Lockheed Martin in 2018.
The U.S. Defense Department’s Space Development Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a $700,000,000 contract on 2022-02-28 to build 42 satellites by 2024 for a global communications network in low Earth orbit.
In 2020 Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon Technologies and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team to design competing sensor payloads for Next Gen OPIR satellites.
Lockheed Martin expects a portion of the up to 2,300 new jobs tied to its U.K. plans to be created by strategic and delivery partners in an expanding supply chain.
Lockheed Martin outlined intentions to create up to 2,300 jobs for a space-focused facility in the northeast of England tied to an investment of more than £50,000,000 ($67,000,000).
Lockheed Martin received a $2,900,000,000 contract in August 2018 for development of three geosynchronous Next Gen OPIR satellites.
Lockheed Martin disclosed its plans to explore a U.K. satellite manufacturing base on 2022-03-01.
Lockheed Martin will first seek to establish a small-scale operating facility in the United Kingdom before ramping up operations and expects to have something operating there by next year.
Lockheed Martin’s space business generated $1,130,000,000 in sales in 2021.
Lockheed Martin received a $4,900,000,000 contract in January 2021 for production of three geosynchronous Next Gen OPIR satellites.
GOES-T is the third of four satellites in the GOES-R series of geostationary weather satellites built by Lockheed Martin.
On 2022-03-01, Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon Technologies to supply a second payload for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next Gen OPIR) geosynchronous satellites.