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 received two Space Act Agreements, one for testing advanced materials and one to develop autonomous systems to support in-space plant growth systems.
ABL Space Systems will use funds from Lockheed Martin Ventures’ investment to support the RS1 development and test program, including an integrated stage test later 2019.
Lockheed Martin Ventures participated in Rocket Lab’s Series B funding round in 2015 as a strategic investment of undisclosed size while Rocket Lab was developing the Electron small launcher.
Lockheed Martin received a $31,000,000 award from the U.K. Space Agency in July 2018 to establish operations at the northern Scotland spaceport.
Lockheed Martin considered using Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from a launch site in northern Scotland that the U.K. government will be developing.
The Orion crew module, built by Lockheed Martin, was integrated with a European-built service module to form the combined Orion spacecraft.
SLC-6 was reactivated in the 1990s for Lockheed Martin Athena launches and later used for the Delta IV program.
Janus, developed by the University of Colorado and Lockheed Martin, would use a pair of smallsats weighing about 40 kg each to fly by binary asteroids.
Lockheed Martin earned $294,000,000 in award fees over the course of its Orion contract.
Lockheed Martin earned $88,000,000 in Orion award fees, representing 93 percent of the total available since its confirmation review.
SBIRS GEO-4 was built by Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin is manufacturing SBIRS 5 and SBIRS 6 with deliveries scheduled for 2020 and 2021, respectively.
The U.S. Air Force requested $1,400,000,000 for Next Gen OPIR in fiscal year 2020, including $817,000,000 for development of Lockheed’s three GEO satellites, $107,000,000 for two polar-orbiting satellites by Northrop Grumman, $264,000,000 for ground systems, and $205,000,000 for studies of future parts and material obsolescence.
Lockheed Martin’s upper lander stage would use the Orion human-rated pressure vessel and a build-to-print version of the propulsion system from Orion’s service module.
Lockheed Martin stated work on its lander needs to start by early 2020 to support a launch to the Gateway in early 2024.
NASA selected 11 companies, including Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin, on 2019-05-16 to design descent modules and transfer stages with awards totaling $45,500,000.
The 2019-10-01 request for next-gen OPIR included $817,000,000 for development of three Block 0 geosynchronous missile-warning satellites being built by Lockheed Martin.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced plans to form United Launch Alliance in 2005 and ULA began operations in December 2006.
Lockheed Martin is developing the first of three OPIR Block 0 geostationary satellites that the Air Force plans to begin launching in 2025.
NASA awarded study contracts in November 2017 to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), Sierra Nevada Space Systems, and Space Systems Loral (now Maxar).