Northrop Grumman is a prominent American multinational aerospace and defense company deeply involved in the space industry. As a space technology and launch systems provider, they manufacture spacecraft, satellites, and precision sensors. They are a major partner with NASA, providing cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) through their Cygnus spacecraft and contributing to projects like the James Webb Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman is also involved in developing advanced autonomous systems for military and commercial applications.
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Northrop Grumman is working under a $95 million, four-year contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory in June 2023 to design, develop, and test three prototype satellite terminals that use multiple commercial and military communication systems.
Viasat signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman on 2024-02-29 to support an Air Force Research Laboratory experiment using broadband satellite internet to connect military vehicles and aircraft.
Firefly Aerospace installed state-of-the-art machinery at Briggs to support production of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle that Firefly and Northrop Grumman are co-developing.
Firefly Aerospace is supporting production of Northrop Grumman’s Antares 330 and the Medium Launch Vehicle (MLV) that Firefly and Northrop Grumman are co-developing.
During Northrop Grumman’s fourth-quarter earnings call on 2024-01-25, the company reported double-digit top-line growth in its $14,000,000,000 space portfolio with sales up approximately 14% for the year.
Northrop Grumman took a charge on its contract to build a module for NASA’s lunar Gateway, bringing its losses for the year on that program to $100,000,000.
Northrop Grumman informed its California-based employees who work on space programs of potential layoffs on 2024-02-26.
Northrop Grumman’s company website lists 47 buildings at the Space Park campus where about 7,000 employees work on space systems.
Northrop Grumman operates more than 550 facilities in 50 U.S. states and in over 25 countries worldwide.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman were selected in 2020 to build ESS satellite prototypes.
STORIES of Space Mission 01 launched on 2023-08-01 on an Antares rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft.
Northrop Grumman leads a nationwide team under the Sentinel EMD contract responsible for designing the most technologically advanced portion of America’s ground-based strategic deterrent.
Northrop Grumman is partnered with the U.S. Air Force during the Sentinel EMD phase to mature the design and reduce program risk as key milestones are achieved.
One L3Harris satellite and one Northrop Grumman satellite on USSF-124 are the first prototypes developed under the Missile Defense Agency’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program.
The USSF-124 payload included five satellites built by L3Harris Technologies and one satellite built by Northrop Grumman.
SSC awarded Northrop Grumman the Geosynchronous Auxiliary Support Tanker (GAS-T) contract to begin development of a refueling tanker and associated technologies to deliver fuel in space.
Northrop Grumman is collaborating with the Space Systems Command (SSC), the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and other customers to develop in-space refueling technologies for U.S. space-based assets.
Future satellites could be designed with an interface like Northrop Grumman’s PRM to receive fuel while in space.
The MLV will follow Antares 330 and will replace the Northrop-built solid-fuel second stage with a second stage developed by Firefly using a vacuum-optimized Miranda engine and a five-meter payload fairing developed by Northrop Grumman.
As part of the Low-Rate Initial Production award, Northrop Grumman is producing IBCS equipment and providing product engineering and logistics support.