Created: 2020-05-16
Updated: 2024-03-02
Company - Lockheed Martin
Product/Service - McCandless, MCB
- Classification
- Cargo Transportation & Landers
- Category
- Transport Service (LEO-Moon)
Commercial Lunar Lander
Human Landing System
- Fields
- Mars
Moon
Nuclear Propulsion
Nuclear Fission Power
Nuclear Power
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
Lunar Lander
Keeping the status as Concept until there are plans to move into hardware manufacturing with a launch date.
Product/Service
- Classification
- Space Utilities
- Category
- Resources - Energy
Nuclear Fission Power
- Fields
- Mars
Moon
Nuclear Propulsion
Nuclear Fission Power
Nuclear Power
- Status
- Concept, Development
- First launch
- Not announced
Solar Power on Moon
- The agency will award a total of $19.4 million to three companies to build prototypes and perform environmental testing, with the goal of deploying one of the systems near the Moon’s South Pole near the end of this decade.
- Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado: $6.2 million.
Space Nuclear
JETSON
- Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes), partnered with Lockheed Martin and BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT), has been selected for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear (JETSON) program.
- JETSON is a nuclear electric propulsion (NEP) development project powered by a nuclear fission reactor with the objective of launching a demonstration reactor/spacecraft into cis-lunar space.
- The JETSON team is led by Lockheed Martin who will develop the spacecraft and provide program management. SpaceNukes will design the nuclear reactor power system to provide electrical power to the spacecraft. BWXT will bring their extensive experience in reactor development, testing, and manufacturing.
Keeping the status as Concept until there are plans to move into hardware manufacturing with a launch date.
Created: 2023-03-04
Updated: 2024-03-02
Product/Service - Lunar Mobility Vehicle (LMV)
- Classification
- Surface Spacecraft
- Category
- Commercial Rover
- Fields
- Moon
- Status
- Concept
- First launch
- Not announced
- Partners
- General Motors, Lunar Outpost
Lunar Rover
Keeping the status as Concept until there are plans to move into hardware manufacturing with a launch date.
Created: 2023-07-17
Updated: 2024-03-02
Product/Service
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
In-Space Assembly
In-Space Joining
- Fields
- Large Space Structures
- Status
- Concept, Development
- First launch
- Not announced
- Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado, $9.1 million
- The company will demonstrate in-space component joining and inspection technologies for structural, electrical, and fluid systems. The capability would reduce risk and advance the maturity and reliability of in-space assembly architectures.
What is In-Space Joining?
Created: 2023-07-25
Updated: 2024-03-03
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