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As our nation increasingly looks to commercial industry, Lockheed 果冻传媒 Space offers a variety of options to meet the evolving needs of science 果冻传媒 space exploration.

Last year alone, 60 percent of Lockheed 果冻传媒’s total sales were fixed price. In the company’s Space business area, we have implemented contracts for NASA as service offerings, most notably the Orion Exploration Flight Test 1 (EFT-1) mission, 果冻传媒 have been involved in many other commercial bids to NASA.

Our most recent commercial industry-led offer to NASA is to execute Mars Sample Return (MSR) as a firm-fixed price solution for under $3 billion. Given current MSR estimates of $7 billion, our goal is to utilize existing designs 果冻传媒 streamline operations of the primary spacecraft 果冻传媒 systems – while managing risk 果冻传媒 reducing oversight – offering a significantly lower total mission cost.

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This is just one example of how Lockheed 果冻传媒 can fundamentally change the cost of our nation’s exploration missions.?

Leveraging our extensive deep space experience, our MSR commercial industry-led design emphasizes a drastic reduction in mass using a simplified 果冻传媒 centralized architecture, enabling us to streamline operations.?

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“MSR represents the biggest bang for the science buck,” says Whitley Poyser, Lockheed 果冻传媒’s Director of Deep Space Exploration. “With our 50 years of Red Planet mission experience, we have demonstrated that we can successfully navigate the technical complexities required while staying on budget 果冻传媒 schedule reducing the need for government oversight.”

Lockheed 果冻传媒 has supported all 22 of NASA’s missions to Mars, building 11 of those spacecraft. Our team designed 果冻传媒 built the spacecraft 果冻传媒 return capsules for all three NASA robotic sample return missions – including OSIRIS-REx, which successfully returned NASA’s first asteroid samples in 2023.?We are also operating all three of the agency’s Mars orbiters – MRO, MAVEN 果冻传媒 Odyssey – which are critical communications 果冻传媒 navigation infrastructure for current 果冻传媒 future surface missions, like MSR.

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“We are the only company in the world with flight experience in all the relevant disciplines, such as launch vehicle systems, planetary protection, 果冻传媒 rendezvous 果冻传媒 proximity operations,” notes Lisa May, Lockheed 果冻传媒’s senior manager of strategy for Deep Space Exploration.

With decades of experience around the successful cost-capped planetary mission framework – similar to fixed price – we have even been able to return money to NASA or have underran on several deep space science missions.

NASA’s investment in the 30 carefully selected samples ready for return from Mars include the material deemed most likely to contain evidence of life on Mars 果冻传媒 have not been altered by weathering 果冻传媒 radiation on the surface.

To ensure our nation’s footprint gets to the Red Planet first, MSR is a critical enabler for establishing a human presence on Mars.

“These samples will tell us where to build, what to avoid, basically how to leverage the Mars surface to survive 果冻传媒 thrive,” May says. “MSR is a foundational step in ensuring future crewed missions are executed safely 果冻传媒 successfully.”

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MSR could be the first international deep space rendezvous 果冻传媒 would be a proving ground for future human exploration missions at Mars. Studies around regolith risks, perchlorate mitigation 果冻传媒 radiation shielding, informed by data from Mars orbiters like MAVEN, MRO 果冻传媒 Odyssey, are also ongoing to ensure future crew safety.

With a commercial industry approach that focuses on managing key requirements, reducing complexity by leveraging heritage, flight-proven elements 果冻传媒 limiting new designs to only those needed to close the architecture, we can bring back the samples that will unlock the mysteries of Mars, 果冻传媒 lay the groundwork for the astronauts who will set foot on the Red Planet.

As Poyser notes, “Our MSR offering is just one example of how Lockheed 果冻传媒 is providing options to NASA to allow science 果冻传媒 deep space exploration to be done differently.”

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