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 won a Space Development Agency contract to provide 10 satellites that will be part of a low-orbit constellation designed to transmit 0.005 kg-speed capacity and low-latency signals between domains.
Space programs account for about $12,000,000,000 of Lockheed Martin's $65,000,000,000 in annual sales.
Lockheed Martin received an $89,700,000 contract from the Tipping Point solicitation to complete an in-space demonstration mission using liquid hydrogen.
Relativity Space will create a custom payload fairing for Lockheed Martin’s specialized payload using 3D printing without increasing production time.
Relativity Space will launch Lockheed Martin’s in-orbit refueling demonstration mission on its Terran 1 rocket in October 2023.
Lockheed Martin received an $89,700,000 award to test liquid hydrogen storage technologies on a small satellite and is working with Momentus, which will host the payload on a Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle, and Relativity Space, which will launch the vehicle on its Terran 1 rocket in October 2023.
Of the $372,200,000 in Tipping Point funding, $256,100,000 will go to four companies—Eta Space, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance—to demonstrate cryogenic fluid management technologies.
Telesat is providing technical advice on optical links to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer.
Lockheed Martin and York Space each won contracts in August to produce 10 data-relay satellites that must be delivered within two years.
The optical crosslinks in the Tracking Layer must be compatible with the optical links used in the Transport Layer satellites that Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems are building under contracts awarded in August.
Each of Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin is building an Evolved Strategic SATCOM prototype to be completed by 2025.
Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, and L3Harris received contracts from the Defense Innovation Unit in April 2019 to develop phased array antenna prototypes.
Lockheed Martin is producing GPS 3 satellites 7 through 10.
The U.S. Space Force awarded $685,000,000 in contracts to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing in March to develop payloads for Protected Tactical SATCOM (PTS).
Lockheed Martin is one of the two companies selected to build 10 satellites each for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 0.
Telesat is a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency program and will provide technical advice to Lockheed Martin on the use of optical crosslinks to connect satellites on orbit.
Lockheed Martin received a $51,200,000 contract on 2020-09-16 to begin integrating U.S. missile warning satellites with a new ground system.
The three Next Generation OPIR satellites that Lockheed Martin is developing are projected to start launching as early as 2025.
Northrop Grumman received a $298,000,000 contract to develop a jam-resistant military satellite to supplement and eventually replace the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites made by Lockheed Martin.
The transition of SBIRS (either GEO-5 or GEO-6) to EGS will serve as a pathfinder for the migration of three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) satellites that Lockheed Martin is developing.