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Lockheed Martin Opens Satellite Operations Center Test Bed

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

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Lockheed Martin Opens Satellite Operations Center Test Bed

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Space business has developed and begun operating a new test bed to test and prove out new operating concepts for satellites and data analytics to retire risk and increase efficiencies, the company said this week. The Operations Center of the Future opened in the spring and is being used to fly the company’s In-Space Upgrade Satellite System Demonstrator, proving how a pair of cubesats that are demonstrating how small satellites can be upgraded with new…

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