Lockheed Martin [LMT] is moving to integrate customized applications (apps) into its ground station solutions to provide more efficiency between operators and missions, the company said on Tuesday.

Satellite operators have tasks such as programming a satellite to orbit in a desired path, receiving continuous streams of data from space, and monitoring data from ground sensors and launch activities.

“We want to shape the future of the industry. Transitioning to software-based mission-agnostic ground systems provides a flexible, simpler model with a lower life-cycle cost and up to 15 percent savings in service management costs,” Vinny Sica, vice president of Space Ground Solutions for Lockheed Martin, said in a statement.

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Lockheed Martin is moving from tasks usually contained as separate functions into a design where they can be managed as single apps, integrated on a common operating platform. This increases mission performance by 20 percent and enhances situational awareness while allowing users to manage multiple missions simultaneously, the company said.

“Lockheed Martin ground station app technology couples commercial products, flexible software and open standards to provide customers solutions that are affordable, modular and extensible. Utilizing this framework allows apps to be easily customized to the mission at hand, and fluid enough to adapt to new orders,” the company said.

The company highlighted that software-based solutions like this may provide up to a 75 percent decrease in operational hardware costs and offer a streamlines approach to managing space exploration.