Lockheed Martin opens Orion spacecraft factory. BY Greg Pallone Brevard County. UPDATED 4:15 PM ET Jul. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 2:48 PM ET Jul. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 2:48 PM EDT Jul. 15, 2021.

Viewed on a chart, Brevard County's annual aerospace-aviation workforce statistics show "a hockey stick of job growth" ...

Artemis II is targeting no later than April 2026 to fly its first crewed mission, which would launch the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft with four astronauts on board atop the Space Launch ...

Lockheed Martin reports that the Orion capsule assigned to Artemis III, the first post-Apollo mission slated to deliver humans to the Moon’s surface in mid-2027, has had its computers powered on ...

A test version of an Orion capsule practices jettisoning fairings that cover solar panels during launch, shown on June 1, 2020 at the Lockheed Martin Space headquarters in Jefferson County.

DARPA and NASA selected Lockheed Martin as the lead contractor for the DRACO spacecraft in 2023. BWX Technologies, a leader in the US nuclear industry, won the contract to develop the mission's ...

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin is launching a new initiative called “AI Fight Club,” a virtual battleground where companies can test their artificial intelligence algorithms for use in ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Astrion, through its legacy company Axient LLC, has been selected by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as one of 12 awardees on the Space Test Experiments ...

Lockheed Martin Space navigation system vice president Malik Musawwir said: "Our team is thrilled to support another launch of a critical GPS satellite, just five months since the last liftoff.

But NASA still plans to use its government-owned Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to transport astronauts out to the Moon, where they will rendezvous with a Starship or Blue Origin ...

Brevard benefited from its science, technology, manufacturing sectors, coupled with growth of commercial space companies ...

Space Launch Systems rocket and the Orion spacecraft are designed to send humans back to the moon under the Artemis program; Boeing stated 'approximately 400 fewer positions by April 2025' will be cut ...