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About PlanetSpacePlanetSpace with headquarters in Chicago is part of the new emerging space commercialization business. Teamed with major players in rocket booster and space craft development the company is set to take the lead in the commercialization of space. PlanetSpace is developing a broad spectrum of commercial space services that include Cargo and Crew to the ISS, Point-to-Point Global Travel, Space Tourism, Satellite Orbital Delivery and Escape Velocity Missions. PlanetSpace is leading the team to develop the cargo and crew delivery system.
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, using it’s vast interplanetary and autonomous spacecraft design, build, system integration, and mission operations experience, is developing the Orbital Transfer Vehicles for PlanetSpace. Also teaming with PlanetSpace is ATK Launch Systems, currently developing the first stage for NASA’s Ares 1 launch vehicle and manufacturer of the Shuttle SRBs. ATK, leads the development of the launch vehicle segment and ground processing systems used for cargo delivery during the COTS Phase 1 demonstrations.
About Lockheed MartinLockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corporation, designs, develops, tests, manufactures and operates a full spectrum of advanced-technology systems for national security, civil and commercial customers. Chief products include human space flight systems; a full range of remote sensing, navigation, meteorological and communications satellites and instruments; space observatories and interplanetary spacecraft; laser radar; fleet ballistic missiles; and missile defense systems. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2006 sales of $39.6 billion.
About ATKATK is a leading provider of advanced space systems with $4.1 billion in annual sales, approximately 16,500 employees, and operations in 21 states. The company is the world’s leading supplier of solid rocket motors. ATK expanded into the aerospace market with the acquisitions of Hercules Aerospace Company in 1995 and Thiokol Propulsion in 2001, which transformed the company into the world's largest supplier of solid propellant rocket motors and a leading provider of high-performance composite structures. They produce the Solid rocket motors used on the shuttle and other major US domestic launchers. |
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