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Terran Orbital

Boca Raton, Florida, United States · Public · terranorbital.com

Terran Orbital is Lockheed Martin's small-satellite manufacturing arm, building satellite buses for the SDA Tracking Layer under contract to Lockheed.

Space · watchlist · score 64

Positioning

Terran Orbital is a U.S. smallsat and spacecraft-platform manufacturer that became a wholly owned Lockheed Martin subsidiary when the merger closed on October 30, 2024. It remains operational under the Terran Orbital brand, supplying spacecraft platforms, components, mission operations, and launch-integration support to Lockheed Martin, SDA, NASA, ESA, Advanced Space, and Mitsubishi Electric, while Tyvak International handles European institutional work. The open question is entity-level scale and economics inside Lockheed Martin because Terran Orbital no longer reports standalone public financials. — acquired by Lockheed Martin Corporation (2024-10-30)

Latest signals

  • Terran Orbital appoints Jamin Brown as Chief Operating OfficerSpaceNews
  • Terran Orbital promotes Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations and Head of Strategic ProgramsSpaceNews
  • Terran Orbital promoted Carl William Couch II to Vice President of Strategy and Business Development.Terran Orbital
  • Terran Orbital completed the Critical Design Review for NASA’s CAPSTONE 02 spacecraft.Terran Orbital
  • CAPSTONE 02 will test integrated cislunar navigation using ground tracking, optical sensors, and celestial observations.Terran Orbital

15 signals name Terran Orbital. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • Promoted Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations and Head of Strategic ProgramsSenior hire · www.stocktitan.net — 2026-09-18
  • Promoted Carl William Couch II to Vice President of Strategy and Business DevelopmentSenior hire · Terran Orbital
  • Couch promoted to broader responsibilities including corporate strategy, market development and long-term growth initiativesSenior hire · Terran Orbital
  • CAPSTONE 02 mission to demonstrate increasingly sophisticated capabilities in cislunar space, with Terran Orbital providing the spacecraftDeployment · Terran Orbital

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Scores, Space (of 10)

Deployment3
Production4
Commercials3
Progress3
Technology3
Positioning3
Firepower5
Leverage3

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Questions this page answers

What does Terran Orbital do?

Terran Orbital is Lockheed Martin's small-satellite manufacturing arm, building satellite buses for the SDA Tracking Layer under contract to Lockheed. Terran Orbital is a U.S. smallsat and spacecraft-platform manufacturer that became a wholly owned Lockheed Martin subsidiary when the merger closed on October 30, 2024. It remains operational under the Terran Orbital brand, supplying spacecraft platforms, components, mission operations, and launch-integration support to Lockheed Martin, SDA, NASA, ESA, Advanced Space, and Mitsubishi Electric, whil

Where does Terran Orbital rank in space?

Terran Orbital is on the Space watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 64 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is Terran Orbital based and when was it founded?

Terran Orbital is based in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. Stage: Public.

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