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 U.K. Space Agency awarded $31,000,000 to Lockheed Martin on 2018-07-17 to establish operations from a new launch site in Sutherland, Scotland.
Lockheed Martin received $31,000,000 from the UK Space Agency to support the United Kingdom's new spaceflight program.
Part of the U.K. Space Agency’s $31,000,000 award to Lockheed Martin will fund development of an upper stage called the Small Launch Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle designed to place up to six cubesats into orbit.
Lockheed Martin hopes to start launching from the Sutherland spaceport as soon as 2020, subject to regulatory approvals for building the spaceport and launching from it.
Lockheed Martin will use U.K. Space Agency funding to establish launch operations from Sutherland and to develop the Small Launch Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (SL-OMV), an upper stage to be manufactured by Moog in the U.K. to place up to six six-unit cubesats into orbit.
The British government will provide funding to two companies, including Lockheed Martin, to develop launch systems that will operate from a vertical launch site in Sutherland, Scotland.
On 2018-07-16 the U.K. Space Agency awarded $31,000,000 to Lockheed Martin and $7,000,000 to Orbex to develop launch systems for a vertical launch site in Sutherland, Scotland.
A new spaceport in northern Scotland to be used by Lockheed Martin and Orbex was announced at the Farnborough International Airshow.
Telkom-1 exploded in orbit in 2017 and was built by Lockheed Martin.
The Air Force decided to begin modernizing its missile warning constellation within the next five years and awarded Lockheed Martin the contract for geostationary orbit satellites and Northrop Grumman the contract for polar orbit satellites.
Lockheed Martin receives about $2,000,000,000 per year in contracts from the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center for GPS, communications, and missile warning satellites.
The 2016 legislation grants the military authorities to expedite procurement of next-generation satellites that the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is using to buy five missile-warning satellites from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
The Air Force informed Congress in February that it wanted to end procurement of Lockheed-made SBIRS satellites after vehicle 6 and shift funds previously allocated for SBIRS 7 and 8 to develop a new system.
A November request for information indicated the government was considering soliciting and negotiating a sole-source contract with Lockheed Martin for the entire block 0 system, including all five satellites.
Lockheed Martin’s presolicitation contract covers geosynchronous orbit space vehicles 1 through 3.
The GEO contract will be sole-sourced to Lockheed Martin Space to define requirements, create the initial design, and identify and procure flight hardware for a satellite to operate in geosynchronous orbit.
The Mars 2020 heat shield, a pathfinder based on the Mars Science Laboratory design, cracked during testing earlier in the month at a Lockheed Martin facility.
Lockheed Martin will develop the geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellites for the next-generation OPIR program.
Lockheed Martin is seeking to provide additional observations with a proposed second Space Fence in Western Australia.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working with Lockheed Martin to determine the cause of the cracking in the Mars 2020 heat shield structure.