Space

About Space   ___

Since the 1950s, Lockheed Martin has continued to stay at the forefront of the Space industry. Today, the Space business area has made it our mission to advance 21st Century Security®, innovate with urgency and help our customers stay ahead of ready.

The Space business area is responsible for the research and design, development, engineering and production of:

  • precise navigation, secure communications, and early missile warning systems
  • mission command and control software systems
  • space technologies and transportation systems
  • strategic, advanced strike and defensive systems

Space provides network-enabled situational awareness and integrates complex space and ground global systems to help our government and commercial customers gather, analyze, and securely distribute critical intelligence data. Space is also responsible for various classified products and services in support of vital national security systems and international missions.

$12.6B
Sales in FY2023
23,000+
Employees worldwide
190+
Facilities globally
Our Business   ___

 

Space offers more than 35 product and service lines to help our customers stay ahead of ready:

MUOS-5 Test
goes-t launch

Human & Scientific Exploration

GOES-R Series

Orion

NGI
Working at Space   ___

A career that's built to inspire

Embracing the technology of tomorrow is one thing. Anticipating it, envisioning it, building it - that's where we thrive.

As a Lockheed Martin Space employee, you'll be a key player in creating safer, smarter aerospace and defense technology solutions for our commercial and government customers, like U.S. Space Force, NRO, NASA and Missile Defense Agency. Our team creates breakthrough innovations that protect what matters most here on Earth while bringing us closer to discovering more of space.

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A stellar support for community

As a responsible global corporation, Lockheed Martin Space and our employees play an active role in helping to strengthen the quality of life in the communities where we live and work. In 2023:

  • Lockheed Martin Space employees spent more than 65,000 hours volunteering in their communities.
  • Lockheed Martin Space Social Impact invested nearly $1.5 million in strategic partnerships with nonprofits that are developing the next generation of STEM professionals, supporting our military and veteran communities through mental health and economic resilience initiatives, and providing disaster response and mitigation efforts in communities where we live and work.
Latest Space News   ___
Dec 17, 2024
Story
As Lockheed Martin reflects on a year of groundbreaking advancements, these are the top 20 innovations from 2024.
Dec 16, 2024
Press Release
The seventh Lockheed Martin-designed and -built Global Positioning System (GPS) III space vehicle has launched.
Dec 16, 2024
Third Party Article
The U.S. Army and U.S. Navy recently completed a successful flight test of a conventional hypersonic missile.
Lockheed Martin Space Media Contacts   ___
National Security Space
  • Space-based JADO/JADC2 & 5G, Missile Warning, Tranche 2 Tracking Layer, Missile Track Custody, Next Gen OPIR, SBIRS, On-Orbit Technology Demos
  • MILSATCOM, Transport Layer, MUOS, GPS III/IIIF
Commercial Civil Space 
  • Human & Scientific Exploration: Orion, Lunar Architecture, Nuclear Space Systems
  • Planetary Exploration, Weather & Earth Science: GeoXO, Lunar Trailblazer, Mars

 

Strike, Deterrence & Missile Defense

NGI, FBM/Trident D5, CPS, LRHW, Mk21A

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