Lockheed Martin is developing an environment that tests the ability of AI to support warfighters. It’s dubbed AI Fight Club and will simulate how rival AI systems perform in air, land, sea, and space domains. Basically, it aims to be a proving ground for the best artificial intelligence models for military support. “There has never been a more important time ...
Check out the completed Orion Artemis II spacecraft. It's a small human journey from NASA's Kennedy Space Center but a giant journey for mankind to Mars... And this is part of it.
Lockheed Martin has officially completed the assembly and testing of NASA’s Orion Artemis II spacecraft. Orion It means transferring possession of the craft from the company to NASA’s own Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) team. A significant milestone for NASA and the Artemis industry team, they will start to prepare to launch a crew of four astronauts for establishing a human ...
Terran Orbital, a manufacturer of small satellites, has been selected by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as one of 12 companies awarded a position on the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract. This is a 10-year, $237m IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity) contract. Space Systems Command administers it. And the contract also supports a wider Space Test Program (STP) to ...
Lockheed Martin has completed its latest self-funded technology demonstration satellite. Its Tactical Satellite – or “TacSat” – will now be heading to orbit on a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket in 2025. TacSat is intended to demonstrate specialised sensing and communications capabilities on orbit, and includes the company’s first 5G.MIL payload. It is described as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance spacecraft. ...
Lockheed Martin has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Terran Orbital, the satellite manufacturer based in Boca Raton, Florida. The deal awaits regulatory and Terran Orbital stockholder approval. The acquisition enables Lockheed Martin to expanding its “advanced satellite manufacturing and responsive space capabilities”, said the company. The transaction is expected to close in Q4 of this year. And the deal ...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awards Lockheed Martin a $4.6 million contract to develop AI tools for “dynamic, airborne missions” potentially involving unmanned combat planes. The award is part of Darpa’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) programme. Specifically, the award is to provide advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) and AI agents for live, multi-ship, beyond visual range (BVR) ...
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, working with Nasa, has rolled out the X-59, an experimental aircraft designed to quiet the sonic boom, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California. Described as a quiet supersonic aircraft and a one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to use it to pave the way for commercial aircraft that can travel faster than the speed of sound. The ...
There's Lockheed Martin demonstrating its space-based 5G Satellite Base Station, Siemens buying Insight EDA, a mems-based loudspeaker that uses ultrasonics to reproduce bass notes, Imec's on-line tool that quantifies the environmental impact of IC manufacturing, and unwelcome news of redundancies at Imagination Technologies...
The race for 5G from space is speeding up. Lockheed Martin has completed a final demo of what it describes as its first regenerative non-terrestrial network 5G Satellite Base Station (gNodeB). Basically, where a satellite provides signal regeneration, for bridging comms between Earth and a satellite network. It was the final demo prior to a self-funded space mission. The plan ...
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