Contractor-Supported Telescope Finds Hidden Galaxies, Black Holes; Hashima Hasan Comments
August 30, 2012 No CommentA NASA telescope has discovered new candidates for black holes and close to 1,000 dust-obscured objects the agency believes could be galaxies, the agency announced Wednesday. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. built the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft, both DRS Technologies and Rockwell made the focal planes and Lockheed Martin made a cooling system for the [...]
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Lockheed Martin will build and operate a spacecraft to help NASA in its future Mars expedition, the company announced Monday. The company’s space systems unit in Denver will develop the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft. Once on the planet, the InSight spacecraft will install a seismograph and heat flow probe [...]
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The U.S. Air Force plans to fly 16 Lockheed Martin F-35 jets every week this month, an uptick from 11 flights during the last week of May, Flight Global reports. Lt. Col. Lee Kloos, commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing’s 58th Fighter Squadron, told the website the branch wants to fly 20 planes per week starting [...]
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ONR Picks Lockheed Martin to Integrate Fuel Cells and Solar Power; Dan Heller Comments
August 10, 2012 1 CommentThe Office of Naval Research has awarded Lockheed Martin a $3 million contract to design, develop, and integrate fuel cells and solar power for military applications, according to a company statement. Under the 32-month development program, Lockheed Martin will deliver a JP-8 compatible Fuel Efficient Power Node for the U.S. Marines. Dan Heller, vice president [...]
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Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 fighter jet released an airborne weapon for the first time during a test flight earlier this week in the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic test range. The Navy said the BF-3, a short take-off and vertical landing F-35 variant, released a 1,000-pound weapon while traveling at a speed of nearly 460 miles per hour [...]
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