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 is supporting the U.K.’s ambitions to launch smallsats through the UK Spaceflight program.
Lockheed Martin’s In-space Upgrade Satellite System (LINUSS) completed environmental testing and is ready for launch later 2021.
Lockheed Martin’s near-term goal for the LINUSS capability is to service the next generation of Global Positioning System satellites known as GPS 3F that use the LM 2100 satellite bus.
The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $7,200,000,000 contract in 2018 with options to produce up to 22 GPS III Follow-on (GPS 3F) satellites.
GPS III satellites are built by Lockheed Martin under a 2008 contract from the U.S. Air Force with navigation payloads supplied by L3Harris.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $462,000,000 contract in 2018 to maintain the existing GPS ground control system until 2025.
The Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace payload is one of two being manufactured for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared geosynchronous satellites made by Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin is designing and building the Next-Gen OPIR GEO satellites.
The Next-Gen OPIR GEO flight mission payload is scheduled for delivery to Lockheed Martin in 2023.
Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace plan to deliver their sensor payload to Lockheed Martin in 2023.
Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace are one of two teams selected by Lockheed Martin to develop a competitive payload design for the Next-Gen OPIR GEO program.
The Air Force in 2018 awarded Lockheed Martin a $462,000,000 contract to maintain the existing GPS ground control system until 2025.
Lucy is a nearly one-ton spacecraft that took 18 months to build at Lockheed Martin’s Littleton, Colorado facility.
Lockheed Martin selected Orolia’s SecureSync M-code in part because its modular, open architecture matches the Sentinel A4 radar design, simplifies integration, and supports future upgrades.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 2021-07-30.
Lockheed Martin Space designed, built, tested, and will operate Lucy out of its Littleton, Colorado facility.
JCSAT-RA was built by Lockheed and launched in 2009.
DARPA awarded a $2,900,000 contract to Lockheed Martin to design a spacecraft concept for the DRACO program.
Jennifer Warren is the vice president of civil and regulatory affairs at Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin advocates for satellite operators to adopt the World Economic Forum’s Space Sustainability Rating (SSR).