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...
June 2015
FanWing: short take-off capability creates a new way to fly
... technology. Peebles was approached for discussion of ‘potential collaboration’ in turn by Boeing, British Aerospace, and Lockheed Martin. The Hungarian Government Defence University lectured on the technology and a Swiss company offered partnership...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...and public display’. [15] Artist’s illustration depicting a ‘Plymouth Rock’ asteroid mission with astronauts and NASA’s Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft, designed specifically for deep space missions NASA exchanged samples with the Soviet ...
