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The second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-2) satellite Lockheed Martin is developing for the United States Air Force (USAF) has just completed its thermal vacuum testing. This brings the spacecraft significantly closer to launch.
GEO-2 will aid the US improve its missile defense, technical i... |
14 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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Representatives from Boeing and Lockheed Martin – which together form the United Launch Alliance (ULA) – announce that the two companies will be moving towards certifying their established Atlas V delivery system for human spaceflight.
This will enable the rocket to compete against other contenders for c... |
23 November 2011
04:25 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency announce that NASA wants to introduce a new clause in a contract it signed with Lockheed Martin Space Systems, concerning the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV). The agency wants the spacecraft to fly in 2014.
Lockheed engineers are in charge of desig... |
9 November 2011
03:32 GMT |
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Officials at Lockheed Martin announced yesterday, October 25, that they will begin integrating the GeoEye-2 satellite later this month, at its Sunnyvale, California-based facility. This spacecraft is one of the first next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellites.
GeoEye-2 will be mated with its integrat... |
26 October 2011
02:10 GMT |
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Lockheed Martin engineering teams working on the NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft announce that the primary structure has already been completed. The teams are now ready to move on to the next step in the assembly phase of the project. This remarkable milestone was achieved on schedule, ... |
27 September 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Electric machines are known for their lack of appeal when it comes to styling, but one designer has managed to show us different when he came up with the Lockheed Stratoliner project. The purpose of any concept design is to inspire, despite the fact that it could never hit the market in the initial form - or any form... |
27 September 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Engineers at the Lockheed Martin Corporation announce that the NASA Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) has just started another round of harsh tests. The trials are meant to assess the vehicle's compliance with the guidelines the American space agency put forth for its next spacecraft.The MPCV is an essenti... |
19 August 2011
08:33 GMT |
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Now that the American Space Shuttle Program (SSP) is over, the main contractors NASA that worked with for so many years are laying off their workforce. More than 1,000 people are expected to be let go by the end of this month alone, officials say. In the months leading up to the last shuttle flight – Atlantis&#... |
11 August 2011
08:46 GMT |
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Engineers at the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) say they've created an innovative cooling device, that could be used to improve heat transfer for microelectronic devices or other cooling applications.The laboratories, which are managed by Lockheed Martin's Sandia Corporation, are a leading source of inn... |
8 July 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Officials at Lockheed Martin announce the the first of its Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous satellite series has beamed down its first infrared images. The spacecraft, called GEO-1, was launched on May 7.At this point, the orbital instrument is being put through its paces in a series of early orbita... |
8 July 2011
07:05 GMT |
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Officials at prime contractor Lockheed Martin announce that engineering teams at the Denver, Colorado-based Waterton space systems facility have finished assembling the first flight-worthy Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle. With this tremendous milestone achieved, the company is now ready to move further to the next s... |
4 July 2011
05:04 GMT |
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The United States Army could soon have a new weapon at its disposal, the first in a new generation of combat equipment meant to give warfighters an edge over their enemies. The Hulc robotic exoskeleton has just entered a testing phase at a military research center.This series of biomechanical assessments is aimed at ... |
1 July 2011
05:01 GMT |
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RSA, the security division of EMC, has acknowledged that information stolen from its network was used to carry out a cyber attack against Lockheed Martin and offers to replace all of the 40 million SecurID hardware tokens in existence.Back in March, RSA announced that attackers managed to penetrate its network and ac... |
7 June 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Northrop Grumman, the second largest U.S. government contractor, has abruptly suspended remote access to its network last week, raising suspicions of a cyber attack.Fox News quotes a confidential source inside the company who claims the suspension came without any advance notice on May 26."We went through a domain na... |
2 June 2011
06:55 GMT |
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Government contractor Lockheed Martin has admitted that its network came under attack recently, but claims it successfully repelled it without any loss of sensitive data.The attack is said to have involved cloned SecurID tokens that were used to access the contractor's network and resulted in the VPN being suspe... |
31 May 2011
14:18 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour completed the first-ever test of the new navigation system that will go on the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) yesterday. During the maneuvers, the spacecraft approached the ISS behaving like the new space capsule. The latter is currently being built by main contr... |
31 May 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Major defense contractor Lockheed Martin has suspended remote access to its corporate network in the wake of a serious security incident.The creator of the F-22, F-35 fighter planes and many weapon systems, is the Pentagon's and the US government's biggest supplier of information technology.It's not cl... |
27 May 2011
13:25 GMT |
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Yesterday, May 24, the American space agency announced that it plans to conduct deep space exploration using the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), a spacecraft developed by Lockheed Martin, and based on Project Constellation's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. The corporation now salutes the official decision.Whe... |
25 May 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Engineers at the Denver, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems say that the twin GRAIL spacecraft NASA contracted them to build have finished testing, and are now ready for shipment. The two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probes are headed for the Moon. They will be launched on September 8, 2... |
20 May 2011
09:52 GMT |
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The aeroshell and cruise stage that will go on the NASA Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity have just been delivered at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, where the spacecraft is currently being assembled. The aeroshell was constructed by Denver-based Lockheed Martin, following extremely precise sp... |
13 May 2011
10:55 GMT |
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The United States Air Force (USAF) managed to successfully launch the first Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft on Saturday, May 7, from a Florida launch pad. The instrument, which is the first of its kind, is destined to provide new and improved ballistic missile detection capabilit... |
9 May 2011
04:23 GMT |
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On Friday, May 6, the United States military will launch the first of a new series of satellite into Earth's orbit. Take-off is scheduled to occur in a window of opportunity spanning from 2:14 pm EDT (1814 GMT) to 2:54 pm EDT (1854 GMT).The spacecraft was developed by Lockheed Martin for the US Air Force, and th... |
5 May 2011
10:09 GMT |
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In a clear demonstration that you can indeed do more with less, officials at Denver, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin Corp. announce that they will accelerate the development of the Orion spacecraft, and that they will be aiming to carry out a manned lunar flyby by 2016. At this point, the organization only has access ... |
26 April 2011
10:20 GMT |
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A spacecraft that will launch to Jupiter later this year has arrived at a preparations facility in Florida. It was delivered to the Astrotech payload processing facility, in Titusville, by engineers at the Denver-based Lockheed Martin Space System, which is the main contractor NASA selected for the mission.
The pr... |
9 April 2011
05:47 GMT |
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Yesterday, March 21, Denver, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin unveiled the first completed Orion spacecraft, which it developed for the American space agency. At the same time, it announced the inauguration of a new, state-of-the-art Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC).These were two of the most ambitious project... |
22 March 2011
05:47 GMT |
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The upcoming mission that NASA has planned for studying Jupiter is currently beginning to take shape in the labs of Denver, Colorado-based Lockheed Martin Space Systems (LMSS). The company is the main contractor the space agency selected to build the orbiter.At this point, the vehicle is undergoing environmental test... |
9 March 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Officials with Lockheed Martin announce that the company has just sent out the first Orion spacecraft structure today, out of the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. The vehicle is headed for Lockheed facilities situated in Denver, Colorado, where it will be put through a wide series of tests me... |
10 February 2011
09:45 GMT |
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With the three shuttles in the American space program scheduled to be retired by July 2011, there is currently a lot of talk about what will happen to the spacecraft. The official version is that they will be heading out to various museums, but a company is currently proposing that they keep flying. The catch is that... |
9 February 2011
03:17 GMT |
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According to an official at the private company United Launch Alliance (ULA), which is a joint venture between major corporations Lockheed Martin and Boeing, it would appear that more than 19 percent of the staff currently employed by the Alliance will be let go soon.This means that, over the next couple of... |
4 January 2011
02:53 GMT |
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According to officials at Lockheed Martin, the corporation is currently developing an action plan that would see the first Orion space capsule being launched as soon as 2013. The test would see the Crew Exploration Vehicle taking off unmanned, so that experts can test all of its systems.At this point, Lockheed Martin... |
1 December 2010
02:44 GMT |
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The American space agency announces the awarding of two new research contracts, which deal with the design and development of concepts that will holds relevant for the aeronautics industry of tomorrow.NASA is looking for ideas on how to go about constructing the next generation of advanced airliners, crafts that woul... |
24 November 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Experts with Lockheed Martin have begun pitching a new mission called L2-Farside Mission, which revolves around using the NASA-ordered Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, under development at the corporation.The American space agency has officially canceled Project Constellation, and with it the chances it had of going b... |
23 November 2010
11:08 GMT |
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Officials at the Lockheed Martin corporation announce that the company has just received a $4.4 million contract from authorities in the United States. The money is meant to further and support the development of an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot plant design. The renewable energy facility will be ... |
23 November 2010
02:50 GMT |
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The first-ever commercial Earth-imaging satellite in our planet's orbit has just turned 11, officials at Lockheed Martin are proud to announce. The instrument was designed and built by the company. This is a momentous day for the corporation, which celebrates the successful launch and operations of a commercial ... |
5 October 2010
05:36 GMT |
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After more than 37 years of working on producing the external fuel tanks for the US space shuttles, the NASA Michoud Assembly Plant has just stopped producing the components. This is happening as the American space agency is nearing the end of its Space Shuttle Program, a flagship initiative that has kept the public ... |
2 October 2010
04:19 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, in New Orleans, announce that they have just finished working on the last planned external fuel tank, and that the assembly will be shipped to the KSC.The external fuel tank (EFT) is an indispensable accessory to the space shuttle. It is the component which people most o... |
23 September 2010
09:05 GMT |
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Scientists at Lockheed Martin announce that the efforts to construct the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle are currently progressing smoothly, and that the spacecraft will most likely be ready by 2013. At this point, the Lockheed-led engineering crew in charge of creating the Orion has begun lean assembly pathfinding op... |
22 September 2010
04:18 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announced Thursday, September 18, that they have selected two more companies as part of the Launch Services II contract. The Athena Launch Vehicle Family, which is developed by Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK), will become a part of NASA's plans to fill in the ... |
18 September 2010
06:50 GMT |
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According to officials at the giant defense contractor Lockheed Martin, it would appear that the company, working in collaboration with Animetrics Inc., has been awarded a new contract by the US government, this time for improving facial recognition software.This type of tool is now used extensively by security compa... |
17 September 2010
10:59 GMT |
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On August 18, 1960, the United Sates recorded a massive success, when an airplane managed to recover the capsule of a Corona satellite that had been launched to survey enemy territories.Developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in collaboration with the US Air Force (USAF), the satellite was the first Americ... |
26 August 2010
09:42 GMT |
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According to officials at the Boeing Corporation, the organization has just been commissioned to construct a new satellite payload, for yet another of the four spacecrafts that Intelsat SA ordered.The order was placed last year, and engineering team at Boeing, one of the most important space, aeronautics and defense ... |
24 August 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Even though if the American space agency has yet to decide the faith of its manned space exploration plans, Project Constellation is continuing onwards undisturbed, officials at NASA say. Even if the plan set forth by US President Barack Obama and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden get approved, the agency will not st... |
19 August 2010
05:36 GMT |
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A collaboration of research institutes and private companies in the United States recently managed to gain new knowledge into how our planet's magnetosphere protects us from solar winds. As the Sun explodes, turns and churns, it emits jets of highly-energetic particles known as the solar wind towards our planet ... |
17 August 2010
03:17 GMT |
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A group of private experts announces the development of a new system for protecting perimeters, that is more efficient than any other in existence today.The system was developed by scientists and engineers at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company’s (LMSSC) Advanced Technology Center (ATC), who worked with e... |
16 August 2010
10:19 GMT |
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Officials at Lockheed Martin announce that the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite that the corporation built for the US Air Force has successfully launched on August 14.The newly-launched satellite is the most technologically advanced military communications instrument ever developed, and its go... |
16 August 2010
02:50 GMT |
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A few days ago, Denver, Colorado-based corporation Lockheed Martin Space Systems, the main contractor to build NASA's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, sent out a letter to its subcontractors, announcing them that funding for their efforts will cease on April 30. According to a letter Orbital Sciences Corporation ... |
3 May 2010
02:45 GMT |
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Though the American Administration is proposing to shut down Project Constellation in 2011, when the new fiscal year begins, funding continues to be supplied for the current approach to space exploration. As if to show White House officials that the Project is the way to go, experts at Lockheed Martin, one of the mai... |
2 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Lockheed Martin and IronKey have proudly announced a new hardware solution that will remove and-users' need to always carry a laptop to store their business data. The companies have developed what the press release dubs a “PC on a stick.” The hardware solution invented is a USB flash drive that does ... |
20 January 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Thanks to Lockheed Martin, the Microsoft Simulation Platform will be used for warfighter training by organizations around the world, in the future. The Redmond company expanded on an existing alliance with Lockheed Martin over Microsoft ESP, a move which will permit the evolution of ESP’s current capabilities. ... |
1 December 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Saturday, October 10, the private companies Lockheed Martian and UP Aerospace launched for the first time a new vehicle from Spaceport America. The announcement was made by officials at the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA), who added that the event was private and non-publicized at the request of Lockheed Marti... |
14 October 2009
03:58 GMT |
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