January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
.... About the author Dr George Sowers has 30 years of experience in the space transportation field working for Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin and the United Launch Alliance (ULA). He recently retired from his position as Vice President and Chief...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
...] About the author Dr George Sowers has 30 years of experience in the space transportation field working for Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin and the United Launch Alliance (ULA). He recently retired from his position as Vice President and Chief...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... aircraft on the drawing board also inspired by maturing hypersonics technology. An example is the recently disclosed Lockheed Martin SR-72 concept, the Mach 6 offspring of the Mach 3 SR-71 developed in the 1950s.2 Similar aircraft concepts have...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... proposal process, together with an instrument team from IRAP (Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology) in Toulouse. Lockheed-Martin was to provide the spacecraft, with project development under the guidance of MAVEN Project Manager David...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... by The Australian National University [Australia], RMIT University [Australia], EOS Space Systems [Australia], Lockheed Martin [USA], Optus [Australia], National Institute of Information and Communications Technology [Japan]. SERC has research...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
..., for example, serviced most US government launches for a very long time. ULA is a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, and uses Delta IV and Atlas V rockets. Because SpaceX dramatically lowered prices, it was able to enter the...