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 one of the prime contractors for the Next-Gen OPIR program and was awarded a $4,900,000,000 contract to build the first three Next-Gen OPIR satellites that will be deployed in geostationary orbit.
Lockheed Martin is under contract to produce three Next-Generation OPIR geosynchronous satellites, with the first projected to launch in 2025.
Lockheed Martin received a $1,000,000,000 contract on 2021-06-04 to operate and maintain the ground control systems of the U.S. military’s Space Based Infrared System geostationary satellites.
Kay Sears is the Vice President and General Manager of Military Space at Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin has partnered with General Motors to work on the design of a rover intended to carry astronauts on NASA’s Artemis missions.
The SBIRS constellation consists of geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites and highly elliptical orbit payloads built by Lockheed Martin that provide persistent infrared surveillance and ground control systems for missile warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness, and technical intelligence.
Lockheed Martin is producing SBIRS GEO-6 as the final satellite of the constellation projected to launch in 2022.
SBIRS GEO-5 has a reported program cost of $1,000,000,000 and is the first SBIRS GEO satellite built on the Lockheed Martin LM 2100 bus with enhanced security features.
SBIRS GEO-5 is a missile warning spacecraft built by Lockheed Martin.
Tyvak supplies small satellite buses to Lockheed Martin, which won a contract from the U.S. Defense Department’s Space Development Agency to provide 10 communications satellites.
OSIRIS-REx was designed, built, and flown by Lockheed Martin for NASA.
The $228,000,000 contract covers work on the operational control system for the GPS 3 satellites manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
The U.S. Air Force contracted Lockheed Martin to develop an interim ground control system for the GPS 3 satellites.
OCX 3F upgrades the OCX Blocks 1 & 2 system to utilize the enhanced capabilities of the GPS IIIF space vehicles being developed by Lockheed Martin.
York Space Systems and Lockheed Martin are building 10 satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0 mesh network slated to launch in 2022.
York Space Systems and Lockheed Martin are each building 10 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0 mesh network slated to launch in 2022.
Lockheed Martin Space partners with minority-serving institutions and historically Black colleges and universities.
Lockheed Martin Space employs a chief diversity officer and a vice president of global diversity and inclusion.
Lockheed Martin Space switched from traditional in-person recruitment to virtual recruitment in 2020.
Lockheed Martin Space hires a significant number of cleared individuals who may work unclassified tasks while awaiting security clearance.