Space Systems
The sky's not the limit at Lockheed Martin, where we're helping our customers turn vision into reality with critical space missions. We're harnessing the power of space with capable, efficient and cost-effective systems to help businesses and governments, citizens and entrepreneurs, scientists and peacekeepers move our world from what is, to what can be.
Lockheed Martin capabilities address the complete range of space systems requirements including launch services; the design, manufacture and integration of on-orbit systems; and spacecraft operations on the ground. The goal: An integrated approach with a commitment to performance that provides assured and reliable access to space, and focuses on cost effective solutions.
Lockheed Martin space systems capabilities include:
At Lockheed Martin, we bring the advantages of space-based systems down to Earth. Breakthroughs in telecommunications, navigation, remote sensing, space transportation, and planetary explorations are changing the way we talk, see, think, work and live.
Examples of critical missions our space systems and technologies support include:
- Support to the human space flight program
- Orbiting observatories and telescopes that extend the field of vision to the very origins of life
- Critical national security payloads that gather intelligence and provide protected connectivity
- Sophisticated spacecraft that capture high-resolution images and relay information back to Earth
We realize that for our customers, critical space payloads represent their future. When it's time to put their future into orbit, we only have one chance to get it right. From national security to telecommunications, weather forecasting to planetary exploration, every mission is critical. Our customers are relentlessly focused on their missions. And so are we.
Ground Systems
Lockheed Martin ground systems support advanced mission control capabilities and effective data-collection services, while also ensuring continuous communications with the spacecraft. Ultimately, our ground support helps protect the safety of spaceflight crews as well as the valuable spacecraft assets and integrity of all customer missions.
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Launch Systems
Lockheed Martin's heritage of 45 years in space transportation offers unparalleled experience to draw upon. Our premier fleet of launch vehicles provides customers with reliable and flexible solutions for their space launch needs.
Lockheed Martin's knowledgeable, experienced aerospace engineers and scientists have contributed to customer successes in human spaceflight, planetary exploration and Earth-imaging satellite missions for decades.
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Space Operations
We work diligently to ensure the flight hardware, software, payloads and experiments we are supporting are on-schedule and will function as intended in space. That diligence improves the efficiency and effectiveness of our customers' operations, reducing their costs and minimizing the risks of space missions.
Lockheed Martin supports virtually every NASA mission that leaves planet Earth, including those that explore deep space and other planets in our solar system. Our vast space-operations support includes having developed and tested everything from flight hardware, to procedures, to experiments for all of NASA's human spaceflight missions.
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Space Payloads
For military, civil government and international commercial markets, Lockheed Martin's space payloads are revolutionizing global communications, delivering timely weather information, and furnishing new data for thousands of scientists studying the Earth and beyond. Our space payloads fall into two broad categories:
- Communications payloads
- Space Science Instruments
Transforming visual information into visible results, Lockheed Martin remote sensing payloads offer effective solutions and decision-support tools for a variety of business, economic, environmental and security challenges around the world.
Space payload capability is enhanced by Lockheed Martin's on-going improvements in spacecraft design. For customers this translates to greater reliability and even increased revenue potential.
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Spacecraft
Whether studying the surface of Mars, collecting samples of comets or broadcasting television signals to a corner of the world, spacecraft and their precision scientific instruments must survive and perform in the hostile environment of space.
Lockheed Martin's broad portfolio of innovation in satellite systems for NASA, the Department of Defense and commercial customers is bringing knowledge to a diverse user base. We are taking the best telecommunications technology and augmenting it with unique Lockheed Martin developments to lay the foundation for a wireless space-based network.
From the pinpoint accuracy of global positioning systems to high resolution weather imaging; from jam-proof, secure communications to half-meter space based photos of the Earth, Lockheed Martin spacecraft deliver the value our customers count on.
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Training & Services
There is no room for error during an astronaut's space walk. Proper training, the proper support, the proper equipment are all essential for mission success; and Lockheed Martin provides it. Through comprehensive training and support services, we deliver the expertise our customers rely on to get the job done -- on the ground, and in space.
Lockheed Martin's technical training and support services help customers -- from astronauts to mission controllers operating satellites -- approach each challenge expertly, efficiently and cost-effectively. We apply our in-depth knowledge of space and our full understanding of program requirements to provide detailed training that equips aerospace professionals with the skills they need to successfully complete the mission.
Lockheed Martin's training and support services include:
- Astronaut and mission control training
- Design, development and documentation of research experiments, as well as pre-mission training
- Design, development and operation of state-of-the-art simulation facilities and equipment
- Mission testing
- Research, design and development of flight hardware and software
- Advanced science and technology research
- Advanced scientific and space technology prototypes
- Design, development and operation of solar and astrophysical observation instruments, as well as pre-mission training
We train astronaut crews on tasks as varied as conducting research experiments in space, operating robotics on the Space Shuttle, and servicing the Hubble Space Telescope and other satellites. In addition, we provide services such as training the staff at the Chandra Operations Control Center, which operates the world's most-sophisticated X-ray observatory.
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