Lockheed Martin Space ranks 5 on the Space 100 with a score of 88; Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 with 73. Lockheed Martin Space is ahead on production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Slingshot Aerospace is ahead on deployment. Level on leverage. Lockheed Martin Space is based in Littleton, United States, Slingshot Aerospace in United States. Lockheed Martin Space: Subsidiary. Lockheed Martin Space is named in 90 signals and Slingshot Aerospace in 5.
Lockheed Martin builds spacecraft platforms including LM 400, GPS III, OPIR, and missile-warning satellites for government and defense customers.
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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).
90 signals name Lockheed Martin Space.
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Slingshot Aerospace sells Portal, an AI-powered platform for LEO operations and orbital tracking to space and government customers.
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Slingshot Aerospace is a US space-situational-awareness company running 220+ optical sensors at 22 sites on five continents (LEO-through-GEO tracking, day and night) with a product stack spanning a Global Sensor Network, sovereign space-object tracking, the Agatha AI anomaly-explanation engine, and on-demand tasking. It is the optical half of the commercial SSA duopoly (complement to LeoLabs' radar), embedding into operator workflows as its moat, with a Portal platform expansion (January 2026). It holds the largest single visible award among the SDA startups (value not captured this pass); revenue is estimated at 10-100m.
5 signals name Slingshot Aerospace.
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Lockheed Martin Space ranks 5 on the Space 100 with a score of 88; Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 with 73. Lockheed Martin Space is ahead on production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Slingshot Aerospace is ahead on deployment. Level on leverage. Lockheed Martin Space is based in Littleton, United States, Slingshot Aerospace in United States. Lockheed Martin Space: Subsidiary. Lockheed Martin Space is named in 90 signals and Slingshot Aerospace in 5.
Lockheed Martin Space ranks 5 on the Space 100 with a score of 88; Slingshot Aerospace ranks 52 with 73. Lockheed Martin Space is ahead on production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Slingshot Aerospace is ahead on deployment. Level on leverage. Lockheed Martin Space is based in Littleton, United States, Slingshot Aerospace in United States. Lockheed Martin Space: Subsidiary. Lockheed Martin Space is named in 90 signals and Slingshot Aerospace in 5. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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