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Lockheed Martin

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Bethesda, Maryland, United States
www.lockheedmartin.com
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Lockheed Martin is building a 10-satellite GPS 3 constellation and is under contract to manufacture up to 22 additional GPS 3F follow-on vehicles.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinOrg RelationshipDec 13, 2018Highly anticipated GPS 3 launch just days away

GPS 3 SV01 is the first of an entirely new GPS satellite design with three times better accuracy and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capabilities as provided by Lockheed Martin.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative GeneralDec 13, 2018Mike Pence headed to Cape Canaveral for GPS 3 launch

Lockheed Martin designed GPS 3 with a much stronger signal and an entirely new design intended to provide three times greater accuracy and up to eight times more anti-jamming capabilities than existing GPS satellites.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative GeneralDec 13, 2018Highly anticipated GPS 3 launch just days away

On 2018-09-26, the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $1,400,000,000 contract to start the GPS 3F program.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinOrg RelationshipDec 13, 2018Mike Pence headed to Cape Canaveral for GPS 3 launch

Lockheed Martin and Boeing merged their launch businesses and created United Launch Alliance (ULA) in 2006, which then owned the U.S. military launch market exclusively until SpaceX sued the government in 2014 to be allowed to compete.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinOrg RelationshipDec 12, 2018Incoming HASC Chairman to oppose creating a separate military branch for space

Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin partnered to provide satellite ground stations as a service under the name AWS Ground Station.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinTechnical ProductNov 29, 2018Amazon-Lockheed venture casts shadow on ground station startups

AWS Ground Station will use a network of ground stations called Verge developed by Lockheed Martin.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinTechnical ProductNov 29, 2018Amazon-Lockheed venture casts shadow on ground station startups

Lockheed Martin Space is developing the McCandless Lunar Lander based on designs for Martian landers the company produced for NASA, including the InSight lander.

Mentioned as: Lockheed Martin SpaceTechnical ProductNov 29, 2018NASA selects nine companies for commercial lunar lander program

Amazon partnered with Lockheed Martin to provide low-cost ground infrastructure to satellite startups under a venture called AWS Ground Station.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinOrg RelationshipNov 28, 2018Satellite data business is Amazon’s next disruption target

The Lockheed Martin-built InSight spacecraft touched down on Elysium Planitia near the Martian equator at 2:52:59 p.m. Eastern.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative GeneralNov 26, 2018InSight successfully lands on Mars

The Lockheed Martin–built InSight spacecraft will slow from 5.5 km per second at the beginning of the entry, descent, and landing phase about 125 km high to zero in 6.5 minutes using a heat shield, parachute, and thrusters.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative PlanNov 21, 2018NASA prepares for InSight Mars landing

Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for AEHF satellites and AEHF manufacturing is likely to end after Lockheed Martin delivers the sixth satellite in 2021.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative GeneralNov 19, 2018Future military satcom system puts cybersecurity first

Lockheed Martin plans to offer printed high-pressure fuel tanks as a standard option for its LM 2100 satellite bus designed for 2,300- to 6,500-kilogram spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinOrg RelationshipNov 1, 2018Lockheed Martin extends additive manufacturing to key spacecraft components

Lockheed Martin’s Additive Design and Manufacturing Center opened for business on 2018-09-17.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinOrg RelationshipNov 1, 2018Lockheed Martin extends additive manufacturing to key spacecraft components

Lockheed Martin printed the Remote Interface Unit, an aluminum box that houses avionic circuits, for the sixth U.S. Air Force Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite slated to launch in 2019.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative GeneralNov 1, 2018Lockheed Martin extends additive manufacturing to key spacecraft components

Lockheed Martin won a two-year, $5,800,000 contract from the Office of Naval Research to investigate applying artificial intelligence so robots can be trained to oversee the 3D printing of complex parts used in military aircraft and satellites.

Mentioned as: lockheed martinOrg RelationshipOct 31, 2018Navy’s 3D printing project promises big payoffs for aerospace and defense manufacturing

The United Launch Alliance joint venture began operating as a monopoly in 2006 after Boeing’s Delta and Lockheed’s Atlas merged their government launch operations.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative GeneralOct 23, 2018Military launch poised for new era as Air Force prepares to move beyond EELV

When the EELV program began in 1995, the Air Force provided $500,000,000 each to McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Martin to subsidize development of new rockets.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinOrg RelationshipOct 23, 2018Military launch poised for new era as Air Force prepares to move beyond EELV

Iridium had 65 Iridium Next satellites in low Earth orbit replacing a first-generation constellation developed by Motorola and Lockheed Martin that launched in the late 1990s.

Mentioned as: Lockheed MartinNarrative GeneralOct 18, 2018Final Iridium Next launch scheduled for Dec. 30 Falcon 9 mission

Florida invested $35,000,000 into an operations and checkout facility at Kennedy Space Center where Lockheed Martin is building NASA’s Orion multipurpose crew vehicle.

Mentioned as: lockheed martinTechnical ProductOct 15, 201845th Space Wing gears up for surge in launch activity
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