2008 Enterprise Success Stories

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Date Posted	Subject
December 30, 2008	Lockheed Martin SBIRS Team Delivers Major Subsystems for Second GEO Satellite
December 23, 2008	NASA Selects SpaceX's Falcon 9 Booster and Dragon Spacecraft for Cargo Resupply Services to the International Space Station
December 17, 2008	XCOR Aerospace Completes Successful First Test of Lynx Engine ISPCS Applauds License Award for Spaceport America
December 16, 2008	First Lockheed Martin SBIRS HEO System Achieves U.S. STRATCOM Certification
December 10, 2008	XCOR Aerospace Partners with RocketShip Tours (December 2, 2008) SpaceX Adds Two DragonLab™ Missions to Manifest Lockheed Martin-Built Military Communications Satellite Marks 15 Years in Service
December 9, 2008	Endeavour to Leave California on Wednesday
December 8, 2008	Shuttle Endeavour Lands at Edwards Air Force Base Wyle Executive Announces Retirement Following 37-Year Career at Company (PDF) Lockheed Martin Team Conducts Free-Flight Hover Test of MDA's Multiple Kill Vehicle-1 Registration Open for the 16^th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race 2009 RASC-AL Competition for College Students
December 4, 2008	ABL Successfully Fires Complete Weapon System from Aircraft (PDF) Boeing Airborne Laser Team Fires High-Energy Laser Through Beam Control System
December 3, 2008	Lockheed Martin Selected for Contract by NASA for Next Generation GOES-R Series Weather Satellites State Senate Committee Chairs Named (PDF) Civilians Have New Option for Spaceflight
December 2, 2008	XCOR Aerospace Partners with RocketShip Tours
December 1, 2008	SpaceX Successfully Conducts Full Mission-Length Firing of its Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Shuttle Booms Shake Up Valley
November 24, 2008	Sea Launch Partners with Intelsat on Multi-Launch Agreement CSA Supports L.A. Air Force Week Kick-Off Event
November 17, 2008	Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch of SICRAL 1B
November 12, 2008	Interorbital Systems' Sea Star: Providing the Ride with BOOST-UP
November 10, 2008	Military Weather Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Achieves Five Years On Orbit, Exceeding Design Life Nation's Newest Advanced Polar Operational Environmental Satellite Delivered To Launch Site
October 27, 2008	New Missile Warning Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Completes Rigorous Environmental Testing
October 21, 2008	Quintron DICES System Provides Emergency Support during Hurricane Ike for NASA Johnson Space Center Key Flight Software Delivered for Missile Warning Satellite Built by Lockheed Martin
October 20, 2008	Lockheed Martin Delivers Mars Science Laboratory Backshell to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 13, 2008	Lockheed Martin Delivers Key Hardware for U.S. Navy's Mobile User Objective System
October 11, 2008	Sometimes Workforce Development is Rocket Science
October 9, 2008	Lockheed Martin Sensor Board for Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission Launch
October 8, 2008	Lockheed Martin Sensor Aboard for Insterstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) Mission Launch NASA Awards Contract to Quintron for Stennis Space Center Communications System
October 6, 2008	Lockheed Martin Sponsors 2009 Space Calendar; Employees, Retirees, Stockholders Eligible for Discounts, Free U.S. Shipping NASA First Robotics Grants Available
September 25, 2008	Commercial Remote Sensing Satellite Built by Lockheed Martin Achieves Nine Years in Service
September 24, 2008	Sea Launch Successfully Delivers Galaxy 19 to Orbit
September 23, 2008	Sea Launch Countdown Underway for the Galaxy 19 Mission Sea Launch Signs Launch Agreement with O3b Networks
September 22, 2008	Lockheed Martin Spacecraft to be Flown for NASA's Maven Mars Mission
September 11, 2008	University of Southern California and the Competitiveness Crisis Council Host Summit to Address the California Education Crisis Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch of Galaxy 19 (PDF)
September 8, 2008	Boeing Launches GeoEye-1 Earth-Imaging Satellite
August 28, 2008	U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Team Achieves Major Operational Milestone on First SBIRS HEO System
August 27, 2008	Lunar Landing Hazard Detection Device Tested at NASA Dryden
August 18, 2008	Northrop Grumman Focuses on Global Monitoring Data So Better Climate Solutions Can Be Found
August 12, 2008	Lockheed Martin Achieves 12 Successful Missions in a Row for MDA's Targets and Countermeasures Prime Contract
August 6, 2008	Lockheed Martin SBIRS Team Completes On-Orbit Handover of First HEO Payload to U.S. Air Force
August 5, 2008	SpaceX's Falcon 1 Falters for a Third Time (by Jeremy Hsu, Staff Writer, Space.com) Boeing Opens New Mission Control Center to Support Satellite Customers
July 23, 2008	Lockheed Martin Team Demonstrates High Power Electric Propulsion System for TSAT Program
July 17, 2008	Governor Schwarzenegger and General Renuart, Commander, U.D. Northern Command, Meet to Discuss State and Federal Military Cooperation for Firefighting New L.A. Space Center Welcomes Home Apollo Capsule
July 16, 2008	Sea Launch Mission Success, (PDF)
July 15, 2008	Governor Schwarzenegger Highlights Infrared Scanning Technology Helping to Fight California's Wildfires (QuickTime audio file)
July 14, 2008	Countdown Underway for the Launch of the EchoStar XI Satellite (PDF) NASA Responds to California Wildfire Emergency Imaging Request (PDF) Lockheed Martin-Built Vinasat-1 Satellite Launched Successfully; Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract for BSAT-3b Satellite New Generation of Lockheed Martin Satellites Will Improve Global Positioning System Governor Schwarzenegger and NASA Highlight Infrared Scanning Technology Helpoing to Fight California's Wildfires
July 9, 2008	Quintron Provides DICES Mission Communication System for Recent Delta II Rocket Launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch of the EchoStar XI Satellite (PDF)
July 8, 2008	Sea Launch Transitions to New Leadership
June 23, 2008	U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin SBIRS Team Completes On-Orbit Checkout of Second HEO Payload
June 16, 2008	Lockheed Martin Program Director Inducted Into GPS Hall of Fame Lockheed Martin Partners with Bay Area Teachers to Inspire Future Generations of Scientists and Engineers
June 11, 2008	Lockheed Martin Completes Major Hardware Integration Milestone
June 5, 2008	Doug Shane Named President of Scaled Composites; Burt Rutan to Continue with Company as Chief Technology Officer and Chairman Emeritus (PDF)
June 4, 2008	NASA and Google Announce Lease at Ames Research Center
June 3, 2008	Lockheed Martin and NASA Ames Team Selected to Design New Solar Mission
June 2, 2008	NASA's Ames Supports Three Small Explorer Finalists AIAA Honors Lockheed Martin GPS IIR-M Team With 2008 Space Systems Award
May 27, 2008	NASA Spacecraft Will Study Water-Ice on the Northern Plains of Mars Mars Pulls Phoenix In
May 21, 2008	Sea Launch Successfully Delivers Galaxy 18 to Orbit
May 20, 2008	Announcing Countdown for the Launch of Galaxy 18 (PDF)
May 6, 2008	University-Industry Partnership Results in First LOX-Methane Rocket Flight
May 5, 2008	Lockheed Martin Achieves Key Milestone on New Missile Warning Satellite
April 29, 2008	Girls Incorporated Honors Lockheed Martin's Joanne Maguire
April 28, 2008	Land Launch Executes its First Successful Mission
April 23, 2008	Lockheed Martin Submits Proposals to Advance Defense Departments Operationally Responsive Space Efforts
April 22, 2008	NASA Offers Educational Online Gaming Opportunity to Developers
April 21, 2008	Lockheed Martin-Built Vinasat-1 Satellite Launched Successfully for Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group
April 15, 2008	Lockheed Martin Successfully Launches ICO G1 Mobile Interactive Media Spacecraft
April 7, 2008	U.S. Air Force/Lockheed Martin Team Celebrates Success of GPS IIR Program As Final Satellite Is Readied for Shipment to Cape Canaveral for June Launch Modernized GPS Satellite Begins Operations Following Another Record On-orbit Deployment by U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin Team
March 27, 2008	XCOR Aerospace Raises Their Own Bar to 200,000 Feet
March 26, 2008	XCOR Aerospace's Suborbital Vehicle to Fly Within Two Years XCOR Wins Contract for Operations Demonstrations with New Suborbital Vehicle
March 19, 2008	New Missile Warning Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Progressing in Critical Test Phase
March 12, 2008	Lockheed Martin-built AMC-14 Satellite Ready for Launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome
>March 10, 2008	Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch fo DIRECTV 11 (PDF) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Awards F6 Satellite Program Contract to Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin Submits Proposal to Provide GOES-R Spacecraft
March 4, 2008	Interorbital Releases Neptune Rocket Design; Readies for MSLV Flight Tests (PDF, 1.2 Mb) Interorbital Systems Taps Destiny Space to Book Space Tourism and Sat Launches
February 28, 2008	Lockheed Martin Completes Rigorous Test Of First Advanced Military Communications Satellite Northrop, Loral Hook Up to Get U.S. Satellite Work
February 26, 2008	COM DEV Acquires Passive Microwave Devices Product Line from L-3 Communications
February 12, 2008	Lockheed Martin-built A2100 Satellite Fleet Achieves 200 Years in Orbit
February 11, 2008	AirLaunch LLC Passes Hardware Milestone: Horizontal Test Stand Hardware Complete, Ready for Testing
January 28, 2008	Virgin Galactic Plans Satellite Launches Major Milestones Ahead for New Mexico Spaceport
January 23, 2008	Lockheed Martin-built GPS Satellites Pass 75 Year Mark of Combined On-orbit Operations
January 15, 2008	Sea Launch Delivers Thuraya-3 Satellite to Orbit
January 9, 2008	Gov. Schwarzenegger Launches Web Site Dedicated to His 2008 State of the State Address
January 3, 2008	Sea Launch Continues Thuraya-3 Mission (PDF) NASA Will Broadcast 2008 Robotics Competition Kickoff Live SpaceDev to Develop Payload for International Lunar Observatory Zero Gravity Corporation Wins NASA Contract to Provide Parabolic (Weightless) Flights for Research and Personnel Training