![]() ![]() ![]() Lockheed Missiles Division moved from Van Nuys, California, to the newly constructed facility in Palo Alto, California, in 1956, then to the larger facility in Sunnyvale in 1957. The Lockheed X-7 (dubbed the "Flying Stove Pipe") was an American uncrewed test bed of the 1950s for ramjet engines and missile guidance technology. The X-17 was also used as the booster for the Operation Argus series of three high-altitude nuclear tests conducted in the South Atlantic in 1958. The X-17 was a three-stage solid-fuel research rocket designed to test the effects of high mach atmospheric reentry. The Lockheed Missile Systems Division was established in Van Nuys, California, in late 1953 to consolidate work on the Lockheed X-17 and X-7. The division currently employs about 16,000 people, and its most notable products are commercial and military satellites, space probes, missile defense systems, NASA's Orion spacecraft, and the Space Shuttle external tank. ![]() It has its headquarters in Littleton, Colorado, with additional sites in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Sunnyvale, California Santa Cruz, California Huntsville, Alabama and elsewhere in the United States and United Kingdom. Lockheed Martin Space is one of the four major business divisions of Lockheed Martin. ![]()
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