United Launch Alliance has positioned the first stage of its Atlas V rocket on a mobile launch platform in line with preparations for the Boeing-built Starliner spacecraft’s unmanned test flight, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday.

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The U.S. Air Force has launched and initiated connectivity of a Lockheed Martin-built communications satellite.

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A GPS navigation satellite built by Lockheed Martin has been installed atop United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket prior to its scheduled takeoff on Aug. 22, Spaceflight Now reported Friday.

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Lockheed Martin is set to launch the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite for the U.S. Air Force aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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NASA and United Launch Alliance have agreed to send an inflatable heat shield in low Earth orbit by 2021 or 2022 to test the potential of such technology to support engine retrieval and cargo delivery missions, SpaceFlight Now reported Monday.

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Lockheed Martin has shipped NASA‘s robotic Mars lander to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to undergo final processing ahead of the spacecraft’s May 5 launch aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V 401 rocket. The InSight probe is designed to explore the red planet’s deep interior and map the planet’s basic structure to help scientists investigate how terrestrial planets […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne provided a range of propulsion products to support the launch of the U.S. Air Force‘s fourth Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket on Friday. An Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket strap-on motor powered the Atlas V’s Centaur upper stage to transport the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit […] More

NASA has rescheduled the launch of a Boeing-built communications satellite from Aug. 3 to Aug. 20 after an antenna was damaged during launch preparation activities, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The space agency authorized Boeing to replace one of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite M’s two S-band antennas built to support satellite tracking, telemetry and command. Greg Williams, […] More

The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to launch a Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite Thursday onboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite will work to perform surveillance operations in support of missile warning and defense, battlespace awareness and technical intelligence missions, Lockheed said Tuesday. The […] More

Lockheed Martin will begin environmental and mechanical tests on a satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use to support U.S. weather observation operations. Lockheed said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – S weather satellite is the second of four GOES-R series geostationary weather satellites and will undergo tests that simulate launch and […] More

Airbus‘ defense and space business segment has launched an online basemap that works to provide customers access to homogeneous imagery of the Earth’s landmasses. The One Atlas basemap is designed to facilitate data sharing across teams or partner organizations and help users plan, map and locate personnel, assets or areas of interest, Airbus said Thursday. Bernhard Brenner, head of intelligence […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed the encapsulation of a fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite designed for military communications into a launch vehicle fairing platform. MUOS-5 is scheduled to take off June 24 onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket and would be the final satellite to complete the U.S. Navy’s network constellation, Lockheed said in […] More