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Lockheed Martin’s New Factory Signals Move to Small Satellites

By Elizabeth Howell
SpaceRef
August 18, 2023
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Lockheed Martin’s New Factory Signals Move to Small Satellites
Lockheed Martin SmallSat Factory line.
Image credit: Lockheed Martin.

Lockheed Martin is making a big shift to small satellites. The aerospace giant recently opened a new facility near Denver with 20,000 square feet available, which the company says it will use to create 180 small satellites a year, in part thanks to a setup using parallel assembly lines.

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