Loral Space & Communications Inc. is a satellite communications company headed by Michael B. Targoff and incorporated in Delaware. The company was formed in 1996 from the remnants of Loral Corporation when Loral divested its defense electronics and system integration businesses to Lockheed Martin for $9.1 billion. In 2006, Bernard L. Schwartz retired after leading [...]
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Space Superiority Systems Wing The Space Superiority Systems Wing equips US forces with offensive and defensive counterspace and space situation awareness systems to gain, maintain, and exploit space superiority. It directs the planning, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment of a complex and dynamic portfolio of space-superiority capabilities of the highest national priority. “The visible sensor [...]
Sudhir K. Gupta (better known as S. K. Gupta) has been the Vice President of Operations for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company (SSC) since 2001. SSC manufactures satellites and strategic missiles and provides nearly $8,000 million of Lockheed Martin’s $39,000 million of annual sales. He was a member of the Management Council that received the [...]
Trident missile is a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) with multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) capability. The Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Trident missiles are carried by fourteen active US Navy ”Ohio ”class submarines, with U.S. warheads, and four Royal Navy ”Vanguard” class [...]
During the entire ground system development and operation phases of a mission, telemetry and telecommand definitions may be exchanged between multiple systems and organizations. Without a standard format, databases need dedicated converters to convert between the various proprietary database formats and editors. Allowing for a common database exchange format throughout the entire mission lifecycle will [...]
Titan IV family (including the IVA and IVB) of space boosters were used by the U.S. Air Force. They were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. At the time of its introduction, the Titan IV was the “largest unmanned space booster used by the Air Force.” The [...]
”Phoenix” is a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The ”Phoenix” lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there. The multi-agency program [...]
DARPA intends to assemble two HTV-2s and conduct two flight tests in 2010 and 2011. Each HTV-2 flight will be launched by a Minotaur IV Lite rocket. DARPA will use the flights to demonstrate thermal protection systems and aerodynamic control features. Test flights are supported by NASA, the Space and Missile Systems Center, Lockheed Martin, [...]
While the initial studies date back to 2001, full-scale development was released only in February 2003. The Engineering Model (EM) of the instrument was delivered to Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver (responsible for the spacecraft) in March 2004, and integrated into the Orbiter Test Bed. The ProtoFlight Model (PFM) was delivered and integrated on [...]
*Strategic and Missile Defense Systems **Airborne Laser Test Bed (ALTB) Beam Control/Fire Control System (Formerly Airborne Laser (ABL) **THAAD Terminal High Altitude Area Defense **MKV Multiple Kill Vehicle **Targets and Countermeasures (Unarmed ballistic missile targets used in testing of the elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System.) **Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) (Lockheed [...]
*The current vice president of LMSSC is Joanne M. Maguire. She was previously the deputy of G. Tom Marsh, who recently retired after 37 years at Lockheed. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Lockheed Martin Space Systems, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
In 1989, Mattingly retired from NASA and the Navy with the two-star rank of rear admiral (upper half), and entered the private sector. He worked as a director in Grumman’s Space Station Support Division. He then headed the Atlas booster program for General Dynamics in San Diego, California. At Lockheed Martin he was vice president [...]
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