{"title":"Lockheed Martin Space vs Look Up Space: Defense & intelligence compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/lockheed-martin-space-vs-look-up-space","comparison":"Lockheed Martin Space ranks 5 on the Space 100 with a score of 88; Look Up Space ranks 66 with 69. Lockheed Martin Space is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, positioning and firepower. Look Up Space is ahead on progress. Level on technology and leverage. Lockheed Martin Space is based in Littleton, United States, Look Up Space in Toulouse, France. Lockheed Martin Space: Subsidiary. Lockheed Martin Space is named in 90 signals and Look Up Space in 5.","companies":[{"name":"Lockheed Martin Space","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/lockheed-martin-space","city":"Littleton","country":"United States","stage":"Subsidiary","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Lockheed Martin's space segment (~$13B annual revenue) has the deepest prime bench in national-security space: Orion (Artemis), GPS III, classified sensor programs, an SDA Tranche 3 win (December 2025), Terran Orbital as its smallsat manufacturing arm, and a HawkEye 360 investment. Its venture arm and Terran absorption show a build-buy-invest triple play. Segment financials are program-scoped (a filings pass owed).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":5,"score":88,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":9,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Lockheed Martin builds spacecraft platforms including LM 400, GPS III, OPIR, and missile-warning satellites for government and defense customers.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":90,"facts_total":45},{"name":"Look Up Space","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/look-up-space","city":"Toulouse","country":"France","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Look Up is a French space situational-awareness and space-domain-awareness company that combines its SORASYS ground-radar network with the SYNAPSE data platform to detect, track and analyze satellites, debris and other orbital objects for defense, institutional and commercial customers. Founded by former French Space Commander Michel Friedling and former CNES space-safety chief Juan Carlos Dolado Pérez, it has an operational SORASYS-1 radar in Lozère, is deploying two additional radars in French Polynesia, and has named ecosystem relationships with CNES, EU SST, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, Tahiti Nui Telecom and Skynopy. ([lookupspace.com](https://www.lookupspace.com/about-us))","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":66,"score":69,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Look Up Space builds and operates space-surveillance radars, including SORASYS-1, that track objects in orbit for defense and space-security customers.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":5,"facts_total":9}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}