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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SEAKR Engineering and Lockheed Martin previously worked together on a commercial protected communications payload for the Hellas Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1 program.
Northrop Grumman developed the AEHF payloads under contract to Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin’s Pony Express-1 cubesat, built with Tyvak, took nine months to build and launch.
Lockheed Martin demonstrated a beta version of the Constellations app on 2020-03-10 during the Satellite 2020 conference.
Lockheed Martin delivered the sixth and final AEHF satellite for a scheduled March 2021 launch.
Lockheed Martin is under contract to produce 10 GPS 3 satellites and 22 GPS 3 Follow-On models.
The two final SBIRS spacecraft made by Lockheed Martin are scheduled to launch in 2021 and 2022.
The 2021 budget includes $628,000,000 to acquire two GPS 3 Follow-On satellites from Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin received a $240,000,000 contract for Protected Tactical Satcom payload development.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center selected Boeing and Lockheed Martin on 2020-03-03 to develop jam-resistant communications payloads under the Protected Tactical Satcom program.
Vector filed a patent-infringement suit against Lockheed Martin after Lockheed announced its SmartSat software-defined satellite technology in March 2019.
Lockheed Martin will acquire the satellite technology assets of Vector by default after a bankruptcy court received no qualified bids by the 2020-02-21 deadline.
The deal for Lockheed Martin to obtain GalacticSky will be finalized at a 2020-02-28 court hearing.
Lockheed Martin will obtain Vector’s GalacticSky assets with a stalking-horse bid of $4,250,000 under the terms of a 2020-01-24 filing.
Lockheed Martin is working on its own software-defined satellite technology and flew a Pony Express 1 payload that tested advanced satellite computing and communications on an experimental cubesat launched in December.
The Space Force requested $255,000,000 to launch two GPS III satellites that are already in production at Lockheed Martin’s assembly line.
Lockheed Martin Space vice president Guy Beutelschies estimated optimistic 2020 forecasts at 20 satellites, pessimistic estimates at 10 to 11, and suggested 14 as a reasonable number for 2020.
Lockheed Martin incurred approximately $410,000,000 in cumulative losses on the first three commercial satellites built on its LM2100 platform as of 2019-12-31.
A 2020-02-07 Lockheed Martin filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission indicates the three commercial satellites experienced performance issues related to the development and integration of their LM2100 platforms.
JCSAT-17 has a mass of 5,900 kg and was manufactured by Lockheed Martin.