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Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation is the Lockheed Martin space-systems manufacturer label tied in this catalog to U.S. national-security satellite programs, especially the GPS III navigation-satellite block. Lockheed Martin's current Space business researches, designs, develops, engineers, and produces satellites, space transportation systems, strategic systems, advanced strike systems, and defensive systems for U.S. government and allied missions.
1 weaponsLockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation belongs to the Lockheed Martin space industrial line that now appears publicly as Lockheed Martin Space, one of Lockheed Martin Corporation's four major business segments. The segment combines spacecraft production, classified national-security space work, missile-warning programs, strategic deterrence systems, ground integration, and civil-space spacecraft. Public filings list GPS III, Next Gen OPIR, Orion, Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile, hypersonics, Transport and Tracking Layer work, and Next Generation Interceptor among Space's major programs.
The most direct public defense-system connection is the GPS III / GPS Block III record. Lockheed Martin says it builds the GPS III and GPS IIIF satellites for the U.S. Space Force, with the ten GPS III space vehicles launched between December 2018 and April 2026 and the follow-on GPS IIIF line in production. Missile-warning work is also central to the same industrial base: Lockheed Martin led SBIRS space and ground architecture and is developing the Next Gen OPIR GEO satellite on its LM 2100 Combat bus.
Lockheed Martin identifies GPS III and GPS IIIF as next-generation Global Positioning System satellites for the U.S. Space Force, and says GPS III SV10's April 2026 launch completed the ten-spacecraft GPS III block.
Sources: Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellites
Lockheed Martin describes SBIRS as its developed space-based early-warning system and identifies Next Gen OPIR GEO as the follow-on that will eventually succeed the on-orbit SBIRS architecture.
Sources: First Next-Gen GEO-Based Missile Warning Satellite Successfully Completes Environmental Testing
Lockheed Martin says the first Next Gen OPIR GEO satellite completed thermal-vacuum and acoustic environmental testing in 2025 and uses the company's LM 2100 Combat bus for resilient missile-warning coverage.
Sources: First Next-Gen GEO-Based Missile Warning Satellite Successfully Completes Environmental Testing, Lockheed Martin 2025 Form 10-KLockheed Martin says its Jefferson County, Colorado operations began in 1955 after the U.S. Air Force sought an inland rocket facility; the site later grew into a major space and satellite production campus.
Sources: Lockheed Martin Creating Up To 550 Jobs in Jefferson County
Lockheed Martin's GPS satellite page lists GPS III SV01 as launched in December 2018, starting the ten-spacecraft GPS III block later connected to GPS IIIF production.
Sources: Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellites
Lockheed Martin said it had broken ground on the $350 million Gateway Center, a 266,000-square-foot satellite production facility that would bring its Waterton Campus to 3.5 million square feet of production, engineering, testing, and office space.
Sources: Lockheed Martin Creating Up To 550 Jobs in Jefferson County
Lockheed Martin's 2025 Form 10-K reported $13.029 billion in Space sales, $1.345 billion in operating profit, and $39.822 billion in year-end Space backlog.
Sources: Lockheed Martin 2025 Form 10-K
Lockheed Martin announced that GPS III SV10 launched from Cape Canaveral on April 21, 2026, closing the GPS III block and clearing the way for GPS IIIF spacecraft production.
Sources: Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellites
Public corporate materials now usually present this activity as Lockheed Martin Space, a business segment of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation remains useful where weapon records preserve that exact manufacturer wording.
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Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.