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The 2021 budget includes $628,000,000 to acquire two GPS 3 Follow-On satellites from Lockheed Martin.
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 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.
Lockheed Martin received a $240,000,000 contract for Protected Tactical Satcom payload development.
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.
Vector filed a patent-infringement suit against Lockheed Martin after Lockheed announced its SmartSat software-defined satellite technology in March 2019.
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.
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.
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.
Northrop Grumman developed the AEHF payloads under contract to Lockheed Martin, the AEHF prime contractor.
Lockheed Martin is making 10 GPS 3 satellites use L3Harris’ 70-percent digital mission data unit.
In September 2018 the U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth $7,200,000,000 to build up to 22 GPS 3F satellites.
L3Harris received a $243,000,000 contract from Lockheed Martin in April to provide two fully digital navigation signals for the 11th and 12th vehicles of the GPS 3 constellation.
Lockheed Martin is under contract to build up to 32 GPS 3 satellites.