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Lockheed Martin Launches New Satellite Bus Family In Response To Customer Needs

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, September 25th, 2017

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Responding to customer demands for more affordable, flexible and responsive products, Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Sept. 19 introduced a new family of satellite busses with hundreds of common features able to carry payloads weighing from 22 pounds to more than 5,000 pounds for commercial, civil and military missions.The company invested $300 million over the past five years, including internal research and development funding, to create the four buses, each of which is scalable for power, weight and other mission factors can go…

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