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 Missile Defense Agency selected two satellite designs made by L3Harris and Northrop Grumman for HBTSS and plans to launch both prototypes to orbit in 2023.
Northrop Grumman provided five Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM) 63 solid rocket boosters for the Atlas V 551 that launched STP-3.
Both the STPSat-6 and LDPE-1 spacecraft were built by Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman received a $125,600,000 CLD award for a previously undisclosed commercial space station concept that leverages Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft, Mission Extension Vehicle satellite servicing program, and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost module for the lunar Gateway.
NASA awarded Northrop Grumman a Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) on 2021-12-02 for production of several pairs of Space Launch System solid rocket boosters and development of a new booster version.
Northrop Grumman will produce boosters for Artemis 4 through Artemis 8 that are identical to the boosters built for the first three SLS launches.
Northrop Grumman has a long-term goal of reducing the cost of the booster by 25% to 50%.
Northrop Grumman’s CLD concept is being developed with Dynetics and is designed so a single launch could place in orbit a facility able to support four people with the ability to expand.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract under NASA’s NEXTStep-2 Appendix N to develop lunar lander concepts.
NASA awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a booster production and operations contract valued up to $3,190,000,000 to support the Space Launch System rocket through 2031.
Under Lockheed Martin’s prime contractor leadership, NGG completed CDRs earlier 2021 for two mission payloads being competitively developed by subcontractor teams Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team.
Northrop Grumman Australia (NYSE: NOC) will partner with Inmarsat to develop an agile, resilient, and sovereign satellite communications capability in response to the JP9102 Australian Defence Satellite Communication System project.
Under JP9102, Northrop Grumman Australia and Inmarsat will collaborate to deliver an Integrated Control Segment that provides the Commonwealth with flexibility across commercial and MILSATCOM networks.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded contracts on 2021-11-19 to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon to develop interceptor missiles capable of hitting a hypersonic glide vehicle in flight.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded an expanded scope of work contract to further enable Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) with the development of a SATCOM-enabled Freedom Radio.
Northrop Grumman’s Freedom Radios provide open-architecture, platform-agnostic, cyber-secure solutions to support integrated communications and networking mission functions across domains.
Northrop Grumman has two Mission Extension Vehicles in orbit providing station-keeping services for two Intelsat geostationary satellites that were running low on fuel.
Northrop Grumman is working with Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost, AVL, and Michelin as part of a five-company team to propose a lunar rover to NASA.
Lunar Outpost will apply experience developing its MAPP small robotic rover, which is scheduled to fly to the moon on a Nova-C lander in 2022, to the Northrop Grumman rover project.
Northrop Grumman unveiled a design of a lunar rover proposed for NASA’s Artemis program on 2021-11-16.