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Lockheed Martin launches iSpace to protect space assets

A growing number of satellite system owners and operators need new capabilities to protect their assets and missions in space. To address this need, Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company introduces iSpace – intelligent Space – which provides defence, civil, commercial, and international customers with sensor data processing, space domain awareness, command and control, and battle management capabilities for the space domain.

“Space is an important and valuable domain that has changed from a safe environment to one that is congested and threatened,” said Rob Smith, vice president of C4ISR for Lockheed Martin. “Through the predictive analytic capabilities provided by iSpace, the unknown becomes known, providing decision makers with the ability to quickly understand the operational picture and respond appropriately.”

The iSpace software tasks, processes, and correlates data from a global network of government, commercial and scientific community sensors and command centres. After extracting information from optical, radar, infrared, and radio sensors, iSpace provides information to users about what is happening in real-time and suggests the best course of action mechanically.

Its superior analytics and fusion potential allow proactive management of space events such as collisions, maneuvers, break-ups, launches, and co-orbital threats. The iSpace architecture is net-centric, open, and scalable with an intuitive user display configurable to be quickly incorporated in many environments for modeling and simulation, experimentation, or operational use.

Lockheed Martin leveraged decades of space, air, maritime, and missile defence expertise obtained from multiple U.S. government programmes such as Space Fence, Theatre Battle Management Core Systems, and Command, Control, Battle Management & Communications in developing iSpace.