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 built the LDPE-3A spacecraft using the ESPAStar bus.
Northrop Grumman designed, developed, and implemented the command and control and mission execution software system for the LDPE program using a common baseline across multiple programs.
The Northrop Grumman-built LDPE-2 launched aboard the USSF-44 mission in November 2022.
The secondary spacecraft on USSF-67 was the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA bus LDPE-3A, built by Northrop Grumman, carrying five small military payloads.
Rick Mastracchio, director of business development at Northrop Grumman, highlighted the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) concept at the press conference.
Northrop Grumman and Eviation are partners with AVL in developing air and space technologies.
AVL is supporting electric vehicle design and autonomy systems for Northrop Grumman’s LTV concept.
Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory uses lean manufacturing and digital engineering techniques.
Northrop Grumman designed and constructed a purpose-built manufacturing facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Rocket Center, West Virginia.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems purchased the patent for extending the life of spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit from Dennis Wingo.
Lockheed Martin selected Terran Orbital as its satellite-bus supplier for the Transport Layer Tranche 1, a much larger constellation being built by Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and York Space.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a $100,000,000 contract in 2018 to develop a payload to demonstrate key components of a prototype space solar power system.
Northrop Grumman completed ground-based tests to demonstrate critical technology required for a 2025 demonstration of space-based solar power.
NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn, launched in 1997, relied on Northrop Grumman SSIRU navigation to explore Saturn and several of its moons, including flybys of Titan and Enceladus.
Northrop Grumman is developing the milli-Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope (mHRG) to be featured in the new LR-450 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for smaller platforms requiring a lower-weight, lower-cost solution.
A Northrop Grumman SSIRU was on board NASA’s MESSENGER mission that launched in 2004 to fly by and photograph Mercury and later fly around Venus in 2006.
James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield was deployed and tensioned by testing teams at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California where final deployment tests were completed.
On 2022-12-15, Northrop Grumman completed a successful demonstration of the ability to beam radio frequency energy toward various antennas by steering the beam.
Northrop Grumman’s hemispherical resonator gyros (HRGs) performed for more than 65 million hours in space in 2022 without a single mission failure.
Northrop Grumman is manufacturing flight hardware to assemble a system that will be launched on the Northrop Grumman ESPAStar platform.