Space 2050
summary
Lockheed Martin outlines a concrete Space 2050 roadmap: automate design to “one‑click” and mass‑customize spacecraft, push rapid prototyping and frequent launches, and build on‑orbit services like refuel, repair and assembly. Demonstrated tech includes a solid‑state interferometric imager in lab advancing to NASA missions, natural feature tracking used on OSIRIS‑REx, a lab‑tested disturbance‑free payload isolation and a trailer‑tested laser demonstrator evolving to the LLD product. Communications claim: quantum multiplexing demonstration in lab that scales bandwidth orders of magnitude, and NRAM flown as a radiation‑hard memory step toward CNT avionics; Parsec lunar comm/navigation and GM lunar rovers target early deployments.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and mission
- 3:31Mars and lunar exploration
- 5:41Space 2050 vision and uncertainty
- 14:06Remote sensing in 2050
- 17:59Imaging computer technology
- 20:09Disturbance-free payload systems
- 23:22Quantum communications revolution
- 28:42Carbon nanotube electronics
- 31:14Defense and directed energy
- 37:54Lunar mobility and infrastructure
- 44:41Deep space exploration challenges
- 48:14Earth observation and smart systems
- 52:31Call to action and Q&A
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