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 Systems Corporation will accomplish one launch of its Minotaur IV rocket to deliver the EWS Operational Demonstration-1 prototype satellite to low Earth orbit.
Space Systems Command’s Assured Access to Space awarded a $45,500,000 task order to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on 2023-05-24 via an Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract.
Northrop Grumman is working with Ball Aerospace to develop the infrared payload for the Next-Gen OPIR polar satellites.
Northrop Grumman is supplying its Eagle-3 spacecraft bus and communications payloads for the Next-Gen OPIR polar satellites.
The Space Force Next-Gen OPIR program includes five satellites: two polar satellites from Northrop Grumman and three geosynchronous satellites being produced by Lockheed Martin under a $4,900,000,000 contract awarded in 2021.
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are developing sensor payloads for the Lockheed Martin-built OPIR geosynchronous satellites.
With the preliminary design review completed, Northrop Grumman will begin manufacturing and procuring key spacecraft components ahead of a critical design review scheduled for May 2024.
Northrop Grumman won a $2,370,000,000 contract in 2020 to develop two Next-Gen OPIR polar satellites with infrared sensors to detect and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles for the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command.
Inmarsat has five more payloads in the pipeline for deployment by 2025: three payloads from Airbus for the operator’s Global Xpress Ka-band broadband network in geostationary orbit and two hosted payloads Northrop Grumman is building for highly elliptical orbit.
Northrop Grumman announced plans for a crewed lunar rover in November 2021 with Northrop Grumman as the lead and Intuitive Machines providing the lander.
Northrop Grumman won a $13,300,000 contract in December to refurbish the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit for NOAA’s QuickSounder program.
NOAA plans to launch an Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit refurbished by Northrop Grumman on a commercial satellite bus for QuickSounder.
Northrop Grumman manufactures the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE) bus, which the Space Force used to deploy experiments.
Northrop Grumman selected Mynaric’s CONDOR terminals for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layers.
CONDOR Mk3 was previously selected by Northrop Grumman for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport and Tracking Layers.
Northrop Grumman won a competition in July 2024 to build and deploy a proliferated LEO constellation of 14 satellites with infrared sensors for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman were previously selected for Tracking Layer Tranche 1 contracts and each won contracts for 14 satellites.
Northrop Grumman planned in 2019 to use SLC-6 to launch its Omega solid rocket for the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 competition and later discontinued the program after losing NSSL Phase 2 contracts to ULA and SpaceX.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation received a $29,900,000 Task Order for STP-S29A in September 2022.
The $11,500,000 STP-S29B award follows a $29,900,000 STP-S29A Task Order awarded in September 2022 to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation.