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Three Next-Gen OPIR satellites are being built by Lockheed Martin and the first Next-Gen OPIR satellite is scheduled to launch in 2025.
Since 2007, the Lockheed Martin Ventures fund has invested in more than 70 startup companies.
Lockheed Martin doubled its venture capital fund from $200,000,000 to $400,000,000.
In November, the U.S. Space Force ordered three GPS 3F satellites from Lockheed Martin for $737,000,000 under a 2018 agreement worth $7,200,000,000 for up to 22 spacecraft.
In 2021, Lockheed Martin Ventures screened more than 1,000 start-up companies working in artificial intelligence, autonomy and robotics, cyber security, and quantum computing.
Lockheed Martin terminated its $4,400,000,000 acquisition deal for Aerojet Rocketdyne in February 2022, leaving Aerojet Rocketdyne an independent company.
Lockheed Martin will launch three self-funded small satellites for the Space-Augmented JADO Environment (SAJE) test bed in early 2023, consisting of two Pony Express 2 satellites and one Tactical ISR and Communications satellite (TacSat).
Lockheed Martin will launch a constellation of self-funded small satellites in early 2023 to demonstrate space-enabled global battlefield awareness, sensing, and connectivity.
Two Pony Express 2 smallsats launching in early 2023 will demonstrate mesh networking, tactical communications, and Lockheed Martin’s SmartSat™ and HiveStar™ distributed application technologies.
Lockheed Martin terminated its agreement to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne in February 2022 after the FTC opposed the deal.
The first of the three Lockheed Martin Next Gen OPIR GEO satellites is scheduled to launch in 2025.
The Federal Trade Commission sued in January 2022 to block Lockheed Martin’s planned acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne on grounds that the deal would create a monopoly for rocket and missile propulsion systems.
Lockheed Martin announced plans in December 2020 to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4,400,000,000.
For more than 50 years, Lockheed Martin has built and launched more than 120 weather and environmental spacecraft for U.S. civil and military agencies.
Lockheed Martin will perform lightning mapper work at its Space facilities in the San Francisco Bay Area and spacecraft work at its Littleton, Colorado location.
Lockheed Martin Space is one of two teams selected for a $5,000,000 contract to refine the concept for the GeoXO lightning mapper.
Rocket Lab and Lockheed Martin reached an agreement on 2022-07-27 to supply solar cells and radiation-hardened assemblies for the geostationary Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) satellites.
Lockheed Martin will apply predictive analytics to help interpret GeoXO lightning data and build on software used to interpret data from NOAA’s GOES-R series.
LM 2100 satellites can be equipped with an Augmentation System Port Interface (ASPIN) designed and implemented by Lockheed Martin.
The second Tracking Layer launch, planned for March 2023, will include all four L3Harris satellites and additional satellites from the Transport Layer Tranche 0 produced by Lockheed Martin and York Space.