{"id":182871,"date":"2024-02-16T23:26:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T05:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/lockheed-martin-ramping-up-small-satellite-production"},"modified":"2024-02-16T23:26:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T05:26:21","slug":"lockheed-martin-ramping-up-small-satellite-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/lockheed-martin-ramping-up-small-satellite-production","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin ramping up small satellite production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lockheed-martin-ramping-up-small-satellite-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Lockheed Martin is experiencing a growth spurt in an unexpected corner of its business: small satellites. While traditionally known for its expertise in GPS and giant geostationary (GEO) satellites, the company has quietly built a backlog of 100 smallsats on order from Department of Defense and intelligence customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is probably a different picture than many of you may have in our minds\u201d about what the company does, Johnathon Caldwell, head of Lockheed Martin\u2019s military space business, told a military conference Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Air &amp; Space Forces Association\u2019s Warfare Conference in Aurora, Colorado, Caldwell said a greater focus on small satellites began with the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/space-development-agency-awards-1-5-billion-to-lockheed-martin-and-northrop-grumman-for-72-satellites\/\">pursuit of Space Development Agency<\/a> contracts. SDA is building a proliferated mesh network of satellites in low Earth orbit for the Defense Department, and unlike traditional cost-plus defense programs, the agency demands fixed-price bids from satellite manufacturers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Lockheed Martin is experiencing a growth spurt in an unexpected corner of its business: small satellites. While traditionally known for its expertise in GPS and giant geostationary (GEO) satellites, the company has quietly built a backlog of 100 smallsats on order from Department of Defense and intelligence customers. \u201cThis is probably a different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}