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 reported that Cygnus has sufficient power to rendezvous with the International Space Station on 2022-11-09, to complete its primary mission.
Northrop Grumman launched an Antares 230+ rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on 2022-11-07.
Northrop Grumman increased the payload performance of the Antares launching the Cygnus by about 70 kg, which increased the cargo capacity of Cygnus by 20 kg.
The launch was originally scheduled for 2022-11-06 but was scrubbed about 15 minutes before liftoff because of a fire alarm at Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus mission control center in Dulles, Virginia, which was evacuated and could not support the launch.
Northrop Grumman assessed that the Cygnus had sufficient power to rendezvous with the ISS as planned early on 2022-11-09 to allow the station’s robotic arm to capture and berth it.
Firefly Aerospace announced a joint partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium launch vehicle (MLV) for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.
As Chief Operating Officer, Dan Fermon will execute the A330 stage 1 supply agreement and the MLV partnership with Northrup Grumman.
Northrop Grumman will launch its 18th cargo resupply services mission, NG-18, for NASA from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Northrop Grumman selected Leidos to supply infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.
Under the contract with Northrop Grumman, Leidos will develop and build the sensor payload for a proliferated constellation of low Earth orbit satellites for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Leidos was one of four companies that competed in 2020 for a Missile Defense Agency contract to design a hypersonic and ballistic missile-defense satellite and lost the contract to L3Harris and Northrop Grumman.
The LDPE-2 is the Long Duration Propulsive EELV Secondary Payload Adapter, a satellite bus manufactured by Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman won a $617,000,000 contract in July to produce 14 infrared-sensing satellites for Tracking Layer Tranche 1, a network of 28 missile-detecting satellites to be deployed by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency.
JPSS-2 is the first of three JPSS satellites built by Northrop Grumman under a contract awarded in 2015.
The JPSS satellites use the latest version of Northrop Grumman’s LEOStar-3 spacecraft bus with a new avionics suite, new sensors, reaction wheels, and star trackers.
Orbit Fab had previously raised a total of $17 million, including more than $10,000,000 in a September 2021 funding round that included Lockheed Martin Ventures and Northrop Grumman.
Firefly Aerospace and Northrop Grumman Corporation entered a joint partnership to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium launch vehicle for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.
Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered the first two 63-inch-diameter extended length Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM 63XL) to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Firefly and Northrop Grumman Corporation joined forces to provide an American-built first-stage upgrade for the Antares rocket and to develop a new medium launch vehicle for commercial, civil, and national security space launch markets.
Andrei Mitran, director of strategy and business development at Northrop Grumman, uses the term 'competimates' to describe other companies pursuing commercial space stations and advocates expanding the overall market to enable multiple companies to succeed.