Crescent Space to Deliver Critical Services to a Growing Lunar Economy
Crescent Space Services LLC, a new venture by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has entered the lunar infrastructure market, focusing on providing essential communications and navigation services for lunar missions. The company's first offering, Parsec®, will utilize a network of lunar satellites to ensure constant connectivity for lunar operations starting in 2025. Crescent aims to capitalize on the growing demand for lunar exploration services, leveraging Lockheed Martin's technical expertise and experience in space missions.
- Entry into lunar infrastructure sector enhances market position.
- Initial service, Parsec®, aims for continuous communication and navigation for lunar missions.
- Anticipated launch of services in 2025 aligns with upcoming lunar missions.
- None.
Crescent's Lunar Network Provides Customers with
Why Invest in Lunar Infrastructure?
As humankind expands its presence beyond low-Earth orbit, one of the first key challenges is uninterrupted communications between Earth, the Moon, and the growing number of lunar missions. To do this seamlessly – especially on the far side of the Moon – customers need a network that helps them talk over vast distances, like what cell towers enable here on Earth.
With its agile, services-based business model, Crescent directly responds to this need, offering an initial service called Parsec®: a cislunar communications and navigation network. Parsec uses a constellation of small lunar satellites that will collectively work to provide continuous connection between Earth and the people and assets in lunar orbit, as well as on the surface of the Moon. In addition to communications, Parsec will also provide critical position, timing and navigation services for lunar missions.
Crescent will own and operate the Parsec network upon launch of its first nodes in 2025.
A Team of Trailblazers
Crescent is led by CEO
For Crescent, Landon has brought together a world-class team whose previous expertise supporting civil, commercial and military space missions makes them a perfect fit to lead the charge in providing services for the lunar economy.
"Crescent is well positioned to serve the upcoming wave of lunar science and exploration missions, including
Looking Ahead to the Future
As a subsidiary of
With momentum gaining around humanity's return to the Moon, this is an immediate area of opportunity for Crescent. In the future, Crescent plans to offer additional services to further enable science, exploration and commerce at the Moon and in deep space.
About Crescent
Crescent is a commercial services company created by
View original content to download multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/crescent-space-to-deliver-critical-services-to-a-growing-lunar-economy-301783435.html
SOURCE
FAQ
What is Crescent Space Services and its relationship with Lockheed Martin?
What is the Parsec® network offered by Crescent?
How does Crescent Space plan to support lunar exploration?