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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The Space Force plans to buy two Next-Gen OPIR polar satellites from Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman plans to develop space station modules that leverage its experience with the Cygnus cargo spacecraft and the HALO lunar Gateway module.
NASA selected teams led by Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Voyager Space in late 2021 for funded Space Act Agreements to assist in initial design work on commercial stations.
Northrop Grumman entered a partnership with Firefly Aerospace announced in August 2024 to produce a new Antares first stage using engines under development by Firefly.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a $99.6 million, five-year contract from NIWC Pacific to design, develop, integrate, test, and deliver the relay ground station.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a contract worth $80,300,000 to conduct communications experiments using multiple commercial space internet services.
Under the four-year contract, Northrop Grumman will connect military platforms such as aircraft and ground vehicles with commercial space internet constellations operating in geostationary, medium, and low Earth orbit.
The contract awarded to Northrop Grumman is part of the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program run by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
A ground station developed by Northrop Grumman for missile warning satellites passed a preliminary design review on 2023-06-01.
Northrop Grumman opened a 23,680-square-foot facility in Boulder, Colorado last year.
NASA contracting officers objected to Northrop Grumman's requests for an award fee totaling $28.5 million.
Northrop Grumman’s deep-space radar for the U.S. Space Force passed a critical design review on 2023-05-30.
Northrop Grumman won a $341,000,000 contract last year to develop a radar site to track active satellites and debris in geosynchronous orbit.
The DARC radar site will be located in the Indo-Pacific region and Northrop Grumman is expected to deliver a prototype by late 2025 or early 2026.
NASA eventually agreed to pay Northrop Grumman $24.5 million in award fees after an independent assessment team recommended the payment.
Northrop Grumman is contracted to develop and produce five-segment solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System, while Aerojet Rocketdyne is contracted to adapt Space Shuttle Main Engines for the SLS core stage.
Since DEUCSI began in 2017, companies that have won contracts under the program include Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Ball Aerospace, SES, Iridium, and SpaceX.
SpaceX did not bid for the Tracking Layer Tranche 1 contract, which was awarded to L3Harris and Northrop Grumman.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $45,500,000 contract to launch a small weather satellite in 2025.
Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur 4 rocket will launch an Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR) Weather System (EWS) prototype that will demonstrate commercial weather imaging technologies for military use.