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 successfully completed a System Requirements Review for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer in May.
Northrop Grumman will build and deploy a proliferated low-Earth orbit constellation of 14 satellites with infrared sensors for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Ball Aerospace worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrop Grumman to develop the 25-square-meter system consisting of 18 beryllium mirror segments that operate together as one unit.
ROOSTER is based on the Northrop Grumman ESPAStar payload adapter, a ring-shaped bus designed to ride as a secondary payload on national security space missions launched by United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
Northrop Grumman won a 2017 contract to develop the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE) to host small payloads and experiments.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $22,000,000 contract to produce a satellite bus able to carry multiple small payloads to demonstrate on-orbit refueling in geostationary orbit.
Airbus U.S. offers a modular, scalable 300–500 kg bus for the Northrop Grumman payload and future U.S. government missions.
Northrop Grumman selected Mynaric as a strategic supplier of laser communications systems in November 2021.
Northrop Grumman conducted a ground test of optical communications using a Mynaric terminal on 2022-06-14.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) selected Airbus U.S. Space & Defense Inc. as the commercial provider of satellite platforms for its proliferated-LEO constellation.
The Space Development Agency selected Northrop Grumman in February to develop and field a portion of its Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) constellation.
Northrop Grumman plans to use Mynaric’s laser communications technology for intersatellite links on spacecraft it is building for the Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer Tranche 1 communications network.
Under the contract, Airbus U.S. will supply 42 satellite bus platforms and support vehicle assembly, integration, and testing for Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman will build Tranche 1 satellites integrating the Airbus platform with government and industry payloads, including optical communications terminals made by Mynaric.
Northrop Grumman selected Airbus as its satellite bus supplier for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s low Earth orbit constellation on 2022-07-05.
Under its contract with Northrop Grumman, Airbus will provide satellite buses as well as integration, testing, launch support, and space vehicle commissioning services.
Northrop Grumman will use the Airbus Arrow 450 satellite bus for the Tranche 1 program.
Northrop Grumman won a $692,000,000 contract from the U.S. Space Development Agency in February to produce 42 satellites projected to launch in 2024.
Northrop Grumman provided solid rocket boosters and other critical components for the Atlas V rocket that launched the USSF-12 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Northrop Grumman supplied an ESPAStar satellite and a Wide Field of View testbed missile detection satellite as part of the USSF-12 mission.