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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The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $462,000,000 contract in December to upgrade the Operational Control System to allow operation of the GPS III constellation until 2025.
OCX setbacks required the Air Force to fund upgrades to the existing Operational Control System made by Lockheed Martin at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Lockheed Martin is building Verge to provide communications services to operators of low-Earth-orbit satellites.
Lockheed Martin's military customers have been requesting enhanced security capabilities for both military and commercial satellite operators.
Lisa Callahan is the vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin's Lisa Callahan emphasized the need for secure communications to prevent unauthorized reprogramming of satellites.
Next-gen OPIR Block 0 development includes three geosynchronous missile-warning satellites being built by Lockheed Martin and two polar-orbiting satellites being built by Northrop Grumman.
Lockheed Martin shipped the $1,400,000,000 AEHF-5 satellite from a facility in Sunnyvale, California to Cape Canaveral on a C-5 cargo plane to prepare for a 2019-06-27 launch.
Lockheed Martin completed checkout testing of the $568,000,000 GPS-3 SV-2 and is preparing it for a 2019-07-25 launch.
Lockheed Martin developed an approach intended to achieve a crewed landing on the lunar south pole by 2024.
Lockheed Martin's plan requires work on lander hardware to begin next year, including tooling and material procurement, to meet a 2024 landing timeline.
Lockheed Martin proposes launching a Phase 1 Gateway in 2022 consisting of the Power and Propulsion Element and a small habitation module with docking ports.
The U.S. Air Force authorized Lockheed Martin to survey a second Space Fence site in Western Australia but did not request funding to build a second Space Fence in its 2020 budget.
Worldview-4 was a Lockheed Martin satellite procured by GeoEye.
Tony Antonelli worked with Lockheed Martin to develop Vector based on the scent he encountered the first time he opened the Space Shuttle hatch.
Lockheed Martin is building 10 GPS 3 satellites that the Air Force initially ordered in 2008.
The 2020 budget includes $462,000,000 for development of GPS 3 follow-on satellites (GPS 3F) to be built by Lockheed Martin under a $7,200,000,000 contract for up to 22 satellites.
The Next-Gen OPIR RDT&E request includes $817,000,000 for development of three Block 0 geosynchronous missile-warning satellites being built by Lockheed Martin under a $2,900,000,000 sole-source contract awarded in August.
Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for Orion, supports accelerating NASA’s goal of landing humans on the surface of the moon and said humans could walk on the surface by 2024 with sufficient commitment, urgency, and resources.
GPS 3 satellites being built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems have a mass of approximately 4,400 kg.