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 Space has volunteered its satellites to be beta testers for the SSR.
Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicles provide improved accuracy, advanced anti-jam capabilities, and increased resiliency for the GPS constellation and its approximately 4 billion users worldwide.
Lockheed Martin invested nearly $20,000,000 to renovate and modernize the STAR Center into a digitally transformed factory.
Lockheed Martin has deployed the Intelligent Factory Framework (IFF) to seven locations and is scaling it across the company.
Under Lockheed Martin’s production contract with NASA, NASA has committed to order Orion vehicles for six missions with the potential to add another six through 2030.
Lockheed Martin spent 18 months renovating and modernizing the 55,000-square-foot STAR Center.
Lockheed Martin opened the Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center to expand manufacturing, assembly, and testing capacity for NASA’s Orion spacecraft program.
BWX Technologies, working with Lockheed Martin, received one of the NASA nuclear thermal propulsion concept study contracts.
Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin won DARPA contracts to develop spacecraft using nuclear thermal propulsion systems for the DRACO program.
Companies that received NOAA contracts in 2020 included Ball Aerospace, L3Harris Technologies, Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, and York Space Systems.
Up until 2015, the Export-Import Bank of the United States primarily financed GEO satellite and launch deals supporting satellite manufacturers including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Orbital Sciences, as well as SpaceX launches, with a total value of about $5,000,000,000.
The Space Force is investing billions of dollars in a new Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) constellation of geostationary satellites built by Lockheed Martin and polar-orbiting satellites built by Northrop Grumman to provide global early warning of missile launches.
Lockheed Martin states that the GPS III satellites’ nearly 70 percent digital payload provides increased operational flexibility and advanced capabilities while continuing to support legacy users.
The Falcon 9 launched Lockheed Martin-built GPS 3 Space Vehicle 5, the fifth satellite of the GPS 3 constellation.
Four GPS 3 satellites produced under Lockheed Martin’s 2008 contract are currently in orbit.
Lockheed Martin received a contract in 2008 to develop and produce 10 GPS 3 satellites.
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 05 satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech Space Operations Florida on 2021-06-09.
Lockheed Martin removed Momentus from a NASA-funded technology demonstration mission that Lockheed was awarded in October 2020.
Arrow Electronics, SAIC, Lockheed Martin, IAI North America, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are partners working with the 2021 Techstars Space Accelerator class.
Lockheed Martin received a five-year, $1,000,000,000 contract to support the ground control systems of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite constellation.