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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Airbus is selling the Arrow 450, produced by Airbus OneWeb Satellites, to various customers including Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman selected Innoflight as a strategic avionics supplier for the Space Development Agency Tranche 1 Transport Layer program.
Innoflight has been selected by Northrop Grumman Corporation as a strategic avionics supplier for the Space Development Agency Tranche 1 Transport Layer program.
Innoflight will deliver flight processors with on-orbit data storage, including Battle Management Command, Control and Communications capabilities, to Northrop Grumman for the T1TL program.
Innoflight has been working with Northrop Grumman and their collaboration has yielded progress toward completing the design of advanced Space Vehicle sub-systems in scope for the T1TL program.
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 the T1TL program.
While the new Antares vehicle is in development, Northrop Grumman plans to launch three Cygnus spacecraft on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.
The NG-19 launch will be the last flight of the current version of the Antares rocket as Northrop Grumman works with Firefly Aerospace on a new Antares version that replaces the Ukrainian-built first stage and Russian engines.
In March 2022, NASA ordered six additional missions each from Northrop Grumman and SpaceX, bringing Northrop’s ordered total to 14 missions and SpaceX’s ordered total to 15 missions.
Procurement databases show NASA has obligated about $2,200,000,000 to Northrop Grumman, about $1,100,000,000 to Sierra Space, and about $2,350,000,000 to SpaceX to date for CRS-2 work.
NASA awarded CRS-2 contracts to Northrop Grumman, Sierra Space, and SpaceX in 2016 as successors to the original CRS contracts.
Tracking Layer Tranche 1 will include 14 satellites made by Northrop Grumman and 14 satellites made by L3Harris in addition to Raytheon’s seven satellites.
Jonathan Arenberg, chief mission architect for science robotic exploration at Northrop Grumman, estimated that following the decadal schedule could result in the last of the New Great Observatories completing and launching in 2065.
Three teams led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman won funded Space Act Agreements in late 2021 under the Commercial LEO Destinations program to develop station concepts.
The Deployment Subsystem assembly is being delivered to Northrop Grumman for final integration and test with a planned launch in 2025.
Orbit Logic was selected by Northrop Grumman to develop sensor-planning software for the U.S. Space Force’s Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) space surveillance radar.
Mynaric’s CONDOR terminals were selected by Northrop Grumman for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer and Tranche 1 Transport Layer programs.
Mynaric established U.S. operations and signed a strategic supplier agreement with Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman continues to develop and improve CIRCM to address current and future threats.