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 anticipates launching a prototype in 2025 to demonstrate beaming radio frequency energy down to the planet.
Northrop Grumman’s SSIRU will be carried aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch in May 2027 and will observe explosions caused by the collisions of dense, massive stars.
Northrop Grumman provided the twin five-segment solid rocket boosters for the Artemis I SLS rocket that delivered more than 75 percent of the rocket’s thrust at launch.
Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project is working on transmitting solar energy from space to Earth.
Northrop Grumman's SSPIDR team demonstrated the transmission of directed RF energy to a ground-based rectifying antenna (rectenna) in a test chamber in Baltimore.
Work on the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract will be performed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and at Northrop Grumman’s facility.
In the interim during the Antares hiatus, Northrop Grumman will launch Cygnus missions on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets from Florida.
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation will provide products and services required to monitor and maintain Webb spacecraft systems including the spacecraft bus, optics/telescope, and sunshield.
The SSPIDR team demonstrated the transmission of directed RF energy to a ground-based rectifying antenna (rectenna) using a test chamber at Northrop Grumman's Baltimore campus.
Northrop Grumman's Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project is working towards transmitting solar energy from space to Earth.
Wallops currently hosts two Northrop Grumman Antares launches per year and an occasional Minotaur launch by Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman agreed to buy at least three Falcon 9 launches to fly Cygnus cargo spacecraft as a stopgap between Antares retirement and a new version developed with Firefly Aerospace.
Northrop Grumman supplied twin solid rocket boosters that provided more than 75% of thrust at SLS launch and provided the abort motor and attitude control motor for Orion’s Launch Abort System.
York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman are each building 42 satellites projected to launch in September 2024 for Transport Layer Tranche 1.
Northrop Grumman built the EPS-R payloads at its Space Park campus in Redondo Beach, California.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman won separate 2020 contracts worth $191,000,000 and $253 million, respectively, to design PTS payloads.
Boeing’s and Northrop Grumman’s prototype PTS payloads will operate in geosynchronous Earth orbit to be compatible with military terminals that use stationary antennas pointed at GEO satellites.
Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicles are extending the lives of two Intelsat satellites, IS-901 and IS-10-02, under five-year agreements that began in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
SpaceLogistics, Northrop Grumman’s satellite-servicing subsidiary, plans to send a Mission Robotic Vehicle to an Optus satellite in 2024 to install propulsion jet packs using a robotic arm.
DARPA partnered with SpaceLogistics, a Northrop Grumman company, in 2020 so SpaceLogistics would provide the spacecraft bus, launch, and operations in exchange for commercial use of the robotic payload on-orbit.