September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
... to attain the goal of SSTO: for example, the US National Aerospace Plane (NASP) programme spawned Rockwell’s X-30 and Lockheed Martin’s VentureStar, but they were cancelled due to lack of funds. Meanwhile, the British Aerospace/Rolls Royce project...
15 January 2021
Orion now ready for its Moon mission later this year
... exploration-class spaceship is ready for its mission to the Moon later this year, say prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, who have now completed assembly and testing of the craft. With assembly complete, staff are now...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... the groundwork for upgrading satellites in orbit. The company is also working with aerospace and defence leader Lockheed Martin, which has invested a total of $160 million in Terran Orbital since 2017, in recognition of our broad customer base...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... declared goal of business optimisation is not achieved. For example, the cost of launching the new rockets produced by Lockheed Martin (the Atlas V) and Boeing (the Delta IV, admittedly, technically perfect rockets) was more than $300m – more...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
...NASA’s Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG), which monitors space weather to ensure astronaut safety on the ISS. Lockheed Martin personnel are also playing a central role in the development of MARE science objectives and assisting in the integration...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... consistent with cloud technology can be made available to software developers. The recent partnership between AWS and Lockheed Martin highlights the value in an intersection between the satellite ground segment and the cloud This is true for...
