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
December 16, 2008

First Lockheed Martin SBIRS HEO System Achieves U.S. STRATCOM Certification

December 10, 2008
December 9, 2008
December 8, 2008
December 4, 2008
December 3, 2008
December 2, 2008

XCOR Aerospace Partners with RocketShip Tours

December 1, 2008
November 24, 2008
November 17, 2008

Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch of SICRAL 1B

November 12, 2008
November 10, 2008
October 27, 2008

New Missile Warning Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Completes Rigorous Environmental Testing

October 21, 2008
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
October 6, 2008
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
September 22, 2008

Lockheed Martin Spacecraft to be Flown for NASA's Maven Mars Mission

September 11, 2008
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
July 23, 2008

Lockheed Martin Team Demonstrates High Power Electric Propulsion System for TSAT Program

July 17, 2008
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
July 9, 2008
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
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
June 2, 2008
May 27, 2008
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
March 27, 2008
March 26, 2008
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
March 4, 2008
February 28, 2008
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
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