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The Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage ( ACES) was a proposed liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen upper-stage for use on a number of different launch vehicles produced by Boeing, Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance (ULA). During the last five years of the program, ACES was proposed for eventual use on the Vulcan space launch vehicle designed by ...
Orion ( Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or Orion MPCV) is a partially reusable crewed spacecraft used in NASA 's Artemis program. The spacecraft consists of a Crew Module (CM) space capsule designed by Lockheed Martin and the European Service Module (ESM) manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. Capable of supporting a crew of four beyond low ...
Maiden launch. 14 August 2010 ( USA-214) Last launch. 26 March 2020 ( USA-298) Advanced Extremely High Frequency ( AEHF) is a constellation of communications satellites operated by the United States Space Force. They are used to relay secure communications for the United States Armed Forces, the British Armed Forces, the Canadian Armed Forces ...
OSIRIS-RExOSIRIS-APEX. OSIRIS-REx [a] was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. [14] The material, returned in September 2023, is expected to enable scientists to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial ...
United Launch Alliance, LLC ( ULA) is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. The company designs, assembles, sells and launches rockets, but the company subcontracts out the production of rocket engines and solid rocket boosters .
The first satellite in the series was projected to launch in 2014, but significant delays pushed the launch to December 2018. The tenth and final GPS Block III launch is projected in FY2026. Development GPS III SV-01 sits in Lockheed Martin's GPS III Processing facility after its successful core mate.
On 10 July 2009, Lockheed Martin was awarded US$262.5 million as down payment by the USAF towards the purchase of a fourth satellite. The first SBIRS GEO satellite of the SBIRS program, SBIRS GEO-1, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V launch vehicle on 7 May 2011.
GE, Manufacturing Institute, Alcoa Inc., Boeing and Lockheed Martin Launch Coalition to Train U.S. Veterans for Jobs in Advanced Manufacturing Goal is to Train and Match 100,000 Veterans by 2015 ...