Viasat, Inc. and Lockheed Martin announced a renewed collaboration with the National Space Academy to offer two Space Camps, one hosted by each company.

A reusable, water-powered Mars lander that will allow humans to explore the Red Planet from an orbiting 'base camp' as early as the 2030s was unveiled Friday by US defence giant Lockheed Martin. Governments and private firms are collaborating on projects to send humans to new frontiers, with NASA planning missions next decade into the space between Earth and the Moon to prepare for trips to Mars.

The ultra-sensitive, highly precise Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb telescope) beat its most stringent requirements during Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) testing, which is now complete. Lockheed Martin built the instrument for the University of Arizona and NASA to serve as both the primary science instrument and the primary mirror-alignment sensor aboard the telescope.

Thousands of electrical components make up today's most sophisticated systems – and without innovative cooling techniques, those systems get hot. Lockheed Martin is working with the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) on its ICECool-Applications research program that could ultimately lead to a lighter, faster and cheaper way to cool high-powered microchips – by cooling the chips with microscopic drops of water.

Lockheed Martin is developing a telescope that trades the bulky structure of current two-mirror models for a thin layer of hundreds - or potentially thousands - of tiny lenses that transmit the image to a silicon chip, similar to the camera in smartphones. The system is called SPIDER (Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-optical Reconnaissance), and works on the principle of interferometry.