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Saudi Crown Prince Tours Lockheed’s Sunnyvale, Calif. Facility; Marillyn Hewson Comments

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson hosted Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his visit Thursday at a company site in Sunnyvale, California. MBS toured the facility where Lockheed currently builds a pair of communications satellites for operator Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, the company said Friday. “He also met the Saudi […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman April 9, 2018, 3:15 am
in Industry News, News

Lockheed Tests Arabsat Comms Satellite

Lockheed Martin has started a testing a communications satellite that the company currently develops for Saudi Arabia-based satellite operator Arabsat. Lockheed said Tuesday the Arabsat-6A satellite will undergo a series of tests at the company’s Sunnyvale, California facility to validate whether the spacecraft is ready to operate in orbit. Arabsat CEO Khalid Balkheyour said Arabsat-6A will join […] More

by Ramona Adams February 21, 2018, 9:26 am
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Lockheed Completes Arabsat Comms Satellite Integration; Rick Ambrose Comments

A group of Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians has integrated a modernized A2100 communications satellite built for Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia ahead of a scheduled launch in the second quarter of 2018. Lockheed said Thursday Hellas-Sat/SaudiGeosat-1 is designed to provide telecommunications services for Arabsat customers across the Middle East, Africa […] More

by Scott Nicholas August 11, 2017, 10:20 am
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Harris CapRock's Tracey Haslam Joins Global VSAT Forum's Board; David Hartshorn Comments

Tracey Haslam, president of Harris CapRock Communications, will serve for two years as a new member of the board of directors of the international satellite communications trade group Global VSAT Forum. Simon Gray, field support manager at Eutelsat, has been re-elected to another two-year term on the GVF's board of directors, GVF said Dec. 15. […] More

by Neel Mehta December 21, 2015, 12:00 am
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Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Eyes Commercial Satellite Business Growth

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space systems unit, said the company looks to expand its commercial satellite business and aims for up to three commercial deals annually in an interview with Via Satellite posted Wednesday. Mark Holmes writes that Ambrose pointed to contracts with commercial clients such as Arabsat as an indication of Lockheed’s business […] More

by Anna Forrester July 16, 2015, 10:34 am
in News, Products & Service

Lockheed Subcontracts Aerojet Rocketdyne for Satellite Propulsion Systems; Warren Yasuhara Comments

Lockheed Martin has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to provide the XR-5 Hall Effect and MR-510 Arcjet electric propulsion subsystems and monopropellant rocket engines for Lockheed’s contract with Arabsat. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday Lockheed will fit the subsystems and rocket engines onto two modernized A2100 satellites as part of efforts to boost mission flexibility. Warren Yasuhara, vice president of space systems at Aerojet Rocketdyne, added […] More

by Anna Forrester June 24, 2015, 8:39 am
in C4ISR News, News

Lockheed to Build Comms Satellites for Arabsat; Mike Hamel Comments

Lockheed Martin will produce communication satellites for Arabsat and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in a move aimed to help connect the citizens of Saudi Arabia. Arabsat ordered two A2100 satellites to expand its fleet of television, internet, telephone and secure communications satellites that already operate in orbit for the customers in Middle East, […] More

by Jay Clemens April 29, 2015, 5:58 am

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