SpaceOps: What Lockheed Martin Learned From Lost Tech Demo

Lockheed Martin is self-funding multiple on-orbit technology demonstrations including the LM 400 satellite. Caption: Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is self-funding multiple on-orbit technology demonstrations, including the LM 400 satellite.

Credit: Lockheed Martin
A little more than seven weeks ago, on April 29, Lockheed Martin watched its self-funded LM 400 technology demonstration satellite lift off from Vandenberg SFB, California, on a Firefly Aerospace rocket, and then fall into the Pacific Ocean after the Alpha launch vehicle suffered an anomaly and...
Vivienne Machi

Vivienne Machi is the military space editor for Aviation Week based in Los Angeles.

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