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 developing a geostationary communications satellite that will compete against a Boeing design in a military procurement estimated to be worth $2,400,000,000.
The Department of Defense expects two PTS prototype payloads to be available for launch in fiscal year 2025 as payloads on Boeing’s WGS-11 (hosted) and Northrop Grumman’s ESPAStar-HP satellites (free-flyer).
Before joining ST Engineering iDirect, Tim Winter managed businesses across the defense industry at L-3 Communications and Northrop Grumman.
The James Webb Space Telescope industry team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation won the National Aeronautic Association Robert J. Collier Trophy.
Major aerospace companies Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have announced plans to offer rovers to NASA.
Northrop Grumman has announced plans to offer a rover to NASA for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle competition.
SES-18 and SES-19 satellites were designed and assembled by Northrop Grumman.
Miranda will power the Medium Launch Vehicle that Firefly is co-developing with Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman is partnering with Boeing to enable global allied interoperability for E-7 air battle management capabilities.
The Space Force flew the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission in 2021 on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
SES-18 and SES-19 were designed and assembled by Northrop Grumman.
SES-18 and SES-19 were built by Northrop Grumman.
SES-18 and SES-19 were developed by Northrop Grumman and built on the company’s GEOStar-3 satellite bus.
IHI Corporation stated that the jointly developed satellites will utilize existing Northrop Grumman satellite buses.
Northrop Grumman and IHI Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding on 2023-03-15 to develop small, highly maneuverable satellites and other solutions to bolster Japan’s space domain awareness capabilities, particularly for geosynchronous orbit.
The Northrop Grumman–IHI collaboration is intended to achieve Japan’s goal of reinforcing space domain awareness capabilities and related infrastructure as stipulated in Japan’s National Defense Strategy released 2022-12-16.
Northrop Grumman’s NG-19 Cygnus mission is expected to launch soon after the NG-18 departure, with exact timing still being worked out between Northrop Grumman and NASA.
Innoflight is under contract with Northrop Grumman to deliver avionics including communications, encryption/decryption, networking, processing with data storage, and precision navigation timing products for the Space Development Agency Tranche 1 Transport Layer.
Northrop Grumman is responsible for providing 42 Space Vehicles for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer to be deployed in two Low Earth Orbit orbital planes.
Innoflight will deliver Type-1 bulk and mesh network End Cryptographic Units to Northrop Grumman for T1TL.