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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The DARC radar site to be developed by Northrop Grumman would be one of three planned ground-based radar sites to be installed in dispersed locations around the world.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS).
DARPA signed an agreement with Northrop Grumman in 2020 allowing Northrop Grumman to use the robotic payload on the MRV in exchange for access to technology demonstrations and program data.
A Northrop Grumman Antares 230+ rocket launched the NG-17 mission from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia on 2022-02-19 with a Cygnus cargo spacecraft.
A 2014 Antares launch failure led Orbital ATK, later acquired by Northrop Grumman, to use United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket for two Cygnus missions in 2015 and 2016.
NASA Wallops Flight Facility has launched Northrop Grumman Antares rockets and Cygnus capsules to transport cargo to the International Space Station and has launched sounding rockets.
Work under the contract will be performed at Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation’s facility in Dulles, Virginia.
NASA awarded the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation-2 (ICESat-2) Mission Operations Center Support contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation of Dulles, Virginia.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a SPOC contract by the U.S. Air Force in January 2020.
Northrop Grumman’s SPOC solution provides the U.S. Air Force with an open architecture, advanced connectivity capability designed to address near-term JADC2 mission needs.
Northrop Grumman’s SPOC solution is designed to provide open architecture communications capabilities to help the Department of Defense realize decision superiority for Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2).
In two U.S. Air Force demonstrations, Northrop Grumman partnered with Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to showcase that the SPOC solution can operate simultaneous waveforms with an Open Mission Systems (OMS) interface, an industry first.
NASA awarded Northrop Grumman a contract in March 2021 valued at up to $84,500,000 to provide first- and second-stage solid-fuel motors for the Mars Ascent Vehicle.
Part of the work for the three CLD award teams led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman will be to improve the fidelity of their estimated prices for commercial station services.
NASA selected proposals led by Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman on 2021-12-02 for funded Space Act Agreements under the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations (CLD) program.
NASA elected to award Space Act Agreements to Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman to provide a balanced risk spread for achieving at least one commercial LEO destination during the course of the project.
Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman will receive more than $400,000,000 combined through 2025 to mature designs of commercial space stations under the CLD program.
The Northrop Grumman–Orbital ATK deal was approved by regulators on the condition that Northrop Grumman agreed to supply solid rocket motors to its competitors.
Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C Fire Scout deployed operationally on 2021-12-14.
Northrop Grumman opened the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror in May 2021 at its Redondo Beach, California facility where final deployment tests were completed.