Lockheed Martin
Every Cosmic Herald story on Lockheed Martin — missions, launches, discoveries, and the business of space, newest first.
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Military Space
Space Force Hands Boeing $2 Billion to Extend the Military's 'Cellphone Network in Space'
The U.S. Space Force awarded Boeing up to $2 billion to build two new MUOS narrowband satellites, dethroning incumbent Lockheed Martin and keeping the military's UHF 'cellphone network in space' alive into the mid-2030s.
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Military Space
Two More Jam-Resistant GPS Satellites: Inside the Space Force's $514M GPS IIIF Order
The Space Force ordered two more GPS IIIF satellites from Lockheed Martin for $514 million, pushing the next-gen order to 14 spacecraft and hardening the GPS constellation against jamming with M-Code, a digital payload, and regional power focusing.
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Military Space
The SDA's Transport Layer: America's Proliferated Military Satellite Constellation
The Space Development Agency is building a mesh network of hundreds of small military satellites in low Earth orbit — a fundamentally different approach to space-based command and control than anything the US has operated before.
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Missions
Artemis II keeps slipping. Here's what's actually holding it back.
NASA's crewed lunar flyby mission has been delayed again. The reasons are technical, financial, and organizational — and understanding them reveals how difficult it is to run a government human spaceflight program in 2026.
