Lockheed Martin Secures NASA Contract Worth Billions to Build Additional Orion Spacecraft

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NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a contract to build up to 12 new Orion deepexploration vehicles for the agency’s Artemis crewed lunar exploration program, the companysaid Sept. 23.The Orion Production and Operations Contract (OPOC) is an indefinite-delivery/indefinitequantity(IDIQ) contract that includes an initial three Orion spacecraft worth $2.7 billion forArtemis missions 3-5. NASA then plans to order three more Orion spaceships for Artemismissions 6-8 worth $1.9 billion in fiscal year 2022, according to a Lockheed Martin pressrelease. The company has served as the prime contractor during Orion’s design, development,test and evaluation (DDT&E) phase.