SEC Form POS AM filed by Terran Orbital Corporation

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 30, 2024

Registration No. 333-271093

Registration No. 333-264447

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-271093

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO FORM S-1 ON FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-264447

TERRAN ORBITAL CORPORATION

6800 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 200

Boca Raton, Florida, 33487

(561) 988-1704

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

John Stevens

Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Lockheed Martin Corporation

6801 Rockledge Drive

Bethesda, Maryland 20817

(301) 897-6000

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

Not applicable. Removal from registration of securities that were not sold pursuant to the above referenced registration statements.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

Terran Orbital Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Registrant”), is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) these post-effective amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”) related to the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (collectively, the “Registration Statements”) to deregister any and all of the securities of the Registrant registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under each such Registration Statements as of the date hereof:

On October 30, 2024, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 15, 2024, by and among the Registrant, Lockheed Martin Corporation, a Maryland corporation (“Parent”), and Tholian Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation of the Merger and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. These Post-Effective Amendments are being filed as a result of the Merger.

As a result of the Merger and by filing these Post-Effective Amendments, the Registrant has terminated any and all offerings of its securities pursuant to the Registration Statements and hereby removes from registration any of the securities registered but unsold or otherwise unissued under the Registration Statements as of the date hereof. This filing is made in accordance with an undertaking made by the Registrant in Part II of each Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering. After giving effect to these Post-Effective Amendments, there will be no remaining securities registered by the Registrant pursuant to the Registration Statements.

The foregoing description of the Merger, the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 21, 2024.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of Palm Beach, State of Florida, on October 30, 2024.

Pursuant to Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, no other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments.