Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin’s space business, said she believes accelerated digital modernization efforts meant to improve spacecraft manufacturing processes could also benefit deep space missions, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. She noted that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted the company to speed up its digital transformation roadmap and […] More

Lockheed Martin has opened a new Florida-based facility modernized using an approximately $20 million investment and designed to speed up the production of lunar spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis missions. The Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource Center is a 55,000 sq. ft space that features advanced manufacturing capabilities and digital technologies for developing components of the […] More

Lisa Callahan, vice president and general manager of commercial civil space at Lockheed Martin, has provided an update on the company's partnership with Blue Origin for the development of a new system that would help astronauts land on the lunar surface, TechCrunch reported Friday.

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A NASA space probe built by Lockheed Martin landed on the surface of a near-Earth asteroid Tuesday to take a physical sample using the craft's robotic arm.

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Industry executives have warned that the growing interest of satellite operators on software-defined satellites that can be reprogrammed on orbit also increases their vulnerability to cyber threats, SpaceNews reported Monday.

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Lockheed Martin has partnered with Amazon and Cisco to equip NASA’s Orion spacecraft with human-machine interface technologies designed to allow for deep space voice and video communications. The Callisto technology would use Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant and Cisco’s Webex video conferencing platform to demonstrate communications as NASA prepares Orion for the Artemis I uncrewed mission, […] More

Lockheed Martin finished constructing the Orion spacecraft’s crew capsule ahead of NASA’s planned Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence announced during his visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Lockheed Martin has unveiled new designs for a human lunar lander that would support NASA’s mission to return humans to the moon’s surface by 2024 and use components from the firm's Orion capsule for faster construction, The Verge reported Wednesday.

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Lockheed Martin has introduced at the International Astronautical Congress a reusable lunar lander concept intended to support crewed missions on the moon and future expeditions to Mars. The company said Wednesday the proposed lander would accommodate a four-member crew and carry up to 2K pounds of cargo on the lunar surface for a maximum of […] More

Lockheed Martin has unveiled at the International Astronautical Congress in Australia a new concept that seeks to bring astronauts to Mars in about 10 years. The Mars Base Camp concept involves a mission architecture that focuses on an orbital outpost designed to help astronauts carry out scientific studies and explore the red planet, Lockheed said […] More

A Lockheed Martin-made spacecraft is now on its way back to Earth after a mission to explore and gather samples on the Bennu asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft carries asteroid samples as it flies back to Earth's orbit over a 1.4-billion-mile, two-year trip, which is expected to include two rotations around the Sun, Lockheed said Monday.

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