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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SBIRS GEO-6 is the second military space satellite built on Lockheed Martin’s modernized LM2100 Combat Bus.
Engineers tested Lucy’s mechanical, electrical, and thermal systems and practiced executing the launch sequence from mission operations centers at Kennedy and Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado.
Lockheed Martin’s Gateway Center outside Denver is designed to have 325,000 square meters of production facilities, offices, and other buildings when fully built out.
Lockheed Martin is buying a pair of 12-unit cubesats from Tyvak for LINUSS to demonstrate satellite servicing in geosynchronous orbit.
Orbit Fab raised more than $10,000,000 in its latest funding round from vendors including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, bringing the company’s total funding to $17,000,000.
Terran Orbital created the Tyvak-0129 spacecraft that hosted Lockheed Martin’s experimental mesh networking payload Pony Express.
Lockheed Martin Ventures invested in Rocket Lab and ABL Space Systems in 2019.
Lockheed Martin created an experimental mesh networking payload called Pony Express in January 2020 that was hosted on a Tyvak-0129 spacecraft.
Terran Orbital produced satellite buses for Lockheed Martin’s LM 50 series of smallsats.
Lockheed Martin won a $188,000,000 contract from the Space Development Agency in 2020 following demonstration of technologies validated by the Pony Express experiment.
Lockheed Martin selected ABL Space Systems for a UK Pathfinder launch from the Shetland Space Centre in the United Kingdom in 2022.
Lockheed Martin originally planned to launch the Cryogenic Demonstration Mission spacecraft via Momentus, which would manifest the satellite on a Vigoride transfer vehicle launched on a Relativity Space Terran 1 rocket in 2023.
In March 2020, Lockheed Martin selected SEAKR Engineering to help develop a satellite communications payload for the U.S. Space Force under the Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS) program.
NASA selected a team led by Lockheed Martin in 2020 to develop the Cryogenic Demonstration Mission smallsat under an $89,700,000 contract.
In April of 2021, the U.S. Space Force removed Lockheed Martin from the PTS program and selected Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop PTS prototypes.
In March 2020, Lockheed Martin selected SEAKR Engineering to help develop a satellite communications payload for the U.S. Space Force under the Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS) program.
Lockheed Martin received an Appendix N award of $35,200,000.
Lockheed Martin performs Blackjack satellite integration work at its manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale, California.
NASA selected Lockheed Martin to provide payload delivery services to the Moon under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract.
Lockheed Martin previously received contracts for $13,100,000 and $27,300,000 for Blackjack work.