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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While Antares 330 is in development, Northrop Grumman will launch three Cygnus missions, NG-20, NG-21, and NG-22, on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.
Thales Alenia Space Italia is working with Axiom Space and Northrop Grumman to develop commercial space stations.
Northrop Grumman’s fiscal second quarter financial results were released on 2023-07-27 and included an unfavorable estimate-at-completion adjustment of $36,000,000 for work on HALO.
NASA and Northrop Grumman targeted 8:31 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, 2023-08-01, for Northrop Grumman’s 19th resupply mission to the International Space Station.
NASA awarded Northrop Grumman a $935,000,000 fixed-price contract in July 2021 to build the HALO module based on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft.
Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft launched from Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Northrop Grumman took a $36,000,000 charge on its contract to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for NASA’s lunar Gateway.
constellr’s thermal infrared imaging sensor traveled to the International Space Station in 2022 on a Northrop Grumman resupply mission.
Northrop Grumman received a CCSC-2 agreement for a Persistent Platform described as a human-tended free-flyer to support its crewed station and commercial research and manufacturing.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office to design an autonomous vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft system capable of operating from a moving U.S. Navy ship at sea.
Northrop Grumman selected Trident Systems in March to provide processing and storage electronics for 14 missile-detecting satellites Northrop Grumman is producing for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency.
SpaceLogistics, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, is partnering with Orbital Composites on geostationary applications for in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing.
Orbital Composites is working with Axiom Space, Northrop Grumman, and the Southwest Research Institute to test robotic technology to 3D print antennas for satellite-based cellular broadband and kilometer-scale antennas for space-based solar power.
Critical design review for Northrop Grumman’s EGI-M program was completed in 2020.
SES-18 and SES-19 were designed, manufactured, and assembled by Northrop Grumman.
SES-18 and SES-19 were designed, manufactured, and assembled by Northrop Grumman.
SES-19 was launched in tandem with SES-18 and was built by Northrop Grumman on the GEOSTAR™-3 bus.
Northrop Grumman delivered the fourth MQ-4C Triton to the U.S. Navy ahead of initial operational capability 2023.
Currently only Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne are supplying solid rocket motors to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Mynaric’s CONDOR terminals were previously selected by Northrop Grumman for the Space Development Agency Tranche 1 Transport Layer program.