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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Under its subcontracts with Lockheed Martin and Tyvak, Innoflight will deliver communications, cyber-security, and processing/networking avionics for all 10 Lockheed-produced Tranche 0 satellites and for three engineering development systems.
GPS III Space Vehicle 05 was transported from the Lockheed Martin facility in Waterton, Colorado to Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida by a C-17 Globemaster III crew from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
Innoflight was awarded two subcontracts from Lockheed Martin and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for the delivery of key avionics for 10 satellites produced by Lockheed Martin under the SDA Transport Layer Tranche 0, which consists of 20 space vehicles total.
Momentus was originally planned to integrate the payload on its Vigoride transfer vehicle for Lockheed Martin’s mission and to be launched in October 2023 on Relativity Space’s Terran 1 small launch vehicle.
Pam Melroy left NASA in 2009 and subsequently worked for Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat™ platform provides software-defined satellite capabilities that enable developing and deploying new mission capabilities on orbit.
Lockheed Martin plans to mass produce the ISR satellites at its Gateway Center, a 3.5 million square-foot satellite development and manufacturing facility in Denver, Colorado.
Lockheed Martin is developing and building 10 space vehicles over the next two years for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
DARPA awarded Lockheed Martin a $2,900,000 contract under the DRACO program.
On 2021-04-12, DARPA selected Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin to develop competing spacecraft concepts for a demonstration of nuclear thermal propulsion under the DRACO program.
The sensor tasking feature in iSpace was first developed for the $1,500,000,000 Space Fence surveillance radar site that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
David Young is chief technology officer of CAES and joined the company on 2021-01-26 after serving as vice president of advanced program development at Lockheed Martin’s space division.
Lockheed Martin's contract with ABL Space Systems, announced 2021-04-05, covers up to 26 RS1 launches through 2025 and an additional 32 launches from 2026 through 2029.
If Lockheed Martin ordered all 58 RS1 launches at ABL Space Systems' listed price of $12,000,000 each, the total contract value would be $696,000,000.
Lockheed Martin will purchase as many as 26 vehicles through 2025 and then up to 32 additional launches through 2029.
Lockheed Martin previously used the Pony Express cubesat, launched in late 2019, to test mesh communications.
Lockheed Martin selected ABL Space Systems' RS1 in February for the UK Pathfinder launch from the Shetland Space Centre in 2022.
SBIRS GEO-5 is the first military space satellite built on Lockheed Martin’s modernized LM 2100 Combat Bus.
Lockheed Martin built the SBIRS GEO-5 missile warning satellite.
Lockheed Martin Space awarded TESAT a contract for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0 program.