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LM 400 Satellite To Fly By Middle of 2025 on Firefly Alpha Rocket, Lockheed Martin Says

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

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LM 400 Satellite To Fly By Middle of 2025 on Firefly Alpha Rocket, Lockheed Martin Says

Lockheed Martin said that it designed the LM 400 digitally at the $350 million Gateway Center production line in Waterton, Colo., 15 miles from Denver (Lockheed Martin Schematic)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on Tuesday that its LM 400 satellite is to launch in the first six months of next year on a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket. The refrigerator-sized LM 400 "is a bit of a Goldilocks approach" between the traditional, large, "monolithic" satellites and newer, small satellites for the U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency, Jeff Schrader, vice president of strategy and business development at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colo., told reporters during a space forum in…

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