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Lockheed Martin is under contract to build up to 32 GPS 3 satellites.
AEHF satellites are manufactured at Lockheed Martin’s plant in Sunnyvale, California.
Lockheed Martin was awarded a $3,300,000,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center on 2019-11-15 for support services on classified military communications satellites.
Lockheed Martin received a $3,500,000 contract to develop a flexible architecture to allow seamless switching between multiple satellite constellations.
SNC’s Dream Chaser primary structure, made entirely of carbon composite materials, was produced at a Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas that makes components for the F-35.
Lockheed Martin built the primary structure of the first orbital Dream Chaser vehicle and shipped it from a Lockheed facility in Fort Worth, Texas to Sierra Nevada Corporation.
Lockheed Martin later formed the United Launch Alliance joint venture with Boeing using upgraded Atlas and Delta rockets.
Lockheed Martin received a $31,000,000 award from the U.K. Space Agency in July 2018 to establish operations at the northern Scotland spaceport.
Lockheed Martin’s upper lander stage would use the Orion human-rated pressure vessel and a build-to-print version of the propulsion system from Orion’s service module.
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.
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, 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.
Guy Beutelschies, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of commercial satellite solutions, called SaudiGeoSat-1/Hellas Sat-4 the largest and most powerful commercial communications satellite Lockheed Martin has built.
SaudiGeoSat-1/Hellas Sat-4 is the first commercial satellite to use Lockheed Martin’s modernized LM2100 platform.
Lockheed Martin is building the first 10 GPS 3 satellites under a 2008 contract and received a $7,200,000,000 contract for 22 follow-on GPS 3F satellites in September after Boeing and Northrop Grumman declined to bid.
Lockheed Martin’s space business unit had an operating profit of $1,060,000,000 for 2018, an eight percent increase from 2017.
Lockheed Martin reported a business segment operating profit of $5,880,000,000 on net sales of $53,700,000,000 for the full 2018 fiscal year.
Lockheed Martin is under contract to manufacture 10 GPS 3 spacecraft and 22 follow-on GPS 3F satellites over the next decade.
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.
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.