Illustration: Lockheed Martin Nuclear-powered spacecraft could be the apex vehicle of this century’s space race. Concepts and designs for reactor-equipped rockets have been around for over 50 years but have never left the experimental stage. Despite ambitions to boldly go where no one has gone before, America’s latest push to get nuclear propulsion is to … Read more
Photo: CBS / YouTube The Department of Defense is probably looking at Lockheed Martin’s refund policy after a brand-new F-35 fighter jet crashed on Tuesday afternoon. The recently built aircraft was being transferred from an assembly plant in Fort Worth, Texas to Edwards Air Force Base in California. The F-35B slammed into a hillside near … Read more
Image: Patrick T. Fallon (Getty Images) Having your space ship not explode is probably something that NASA would consider to be mission critical, and SpaceX is having trouble meeting that metric. It’s been a little over 50 years since NASA took people from Earth and put them on the surface of the moon, so it’s … Read more
The new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 8, 2024, for its maiden voyage, carrying Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lunar Lander. The mission, called Cert-1, also carried on board the cremated remains of hundreds of people. GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images Michael Lampton … Read more
If you’ve set foot online over the past couple weeks, you may have seen the internet’s new favorite fashion brand: Lockheed Martin. Yes, that Lockheed Martin, the one that has to talk about war crimes in its SEC filings, is now what the best-dressed people in South Korea are repping on their hiking pants, hoodies, … Read more
The NASA Quesst mission’s Lockheed Martin X-59 at take-offPhoto: NASA NASA thinks there may be a business case for supersonic passenger air travel at speeds up to Mach 4, perhaps equipped with new technology that would allow overland supersonic routes for the first time. It’s been twenty years since Concorde’s final commercial passenger flight in October 2003. … Read more