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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For the ULA Atlas V rocket, Northrop Grumman produced a 10-foot-diameter composite heat shield.
The Atlas V composite heat shield assembly was fabricated using advanced fiber placement manufacturing techniques at Northrop Grumman’s Iuka, Mississippi facility.
Northrop Grumman has two Mission Extension Vehicles in orbit providing station-keeping services for two Intelsat geostationary satellites that were running low on fuel.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) delivered the first set of products to support the U.S. Army Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) space-ground system prototype developed by Northrop Grumman.
Orbit Fab raised more than $10,000,000 in its latest funding round from vendors including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, bringing the company’s total funding to $17,000,000.
The Phase 2 development effort for Northrop Grumman’s Blackjack PNT payload is valued at $13,300,000 if all options are exercised through emulation, critical design, and build.
In April of 2021, the U.S. Space Force removed Lockheed Martin from the PTS program and selected Boeing and Northrop Grumman to develop PTS prototypes.
DARPA’s Blackjack program awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract for Phase 2 development of an advanced, software-defined positioning, navigation and timing payload with options to build units destined for space flight.
Northrop Grumman received an Appendix N award of $34,800,000.
Northrop Grumman tests the Arrays at Commercial Timescales Integration and Validation (ACT-IV) digital AESA system for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the company radar range in Linthicum, Maryland.
TacRL-2 launched a surveillance satellite developed in less than a year on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket deployed from a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar carrier aircraft.
Northrop Grumman’s acquisition of Orbital ATK in 2018 was approved by regulators on condition that Northrop implement behavioral remedies requiring it to supply motors to competitors.
The Space Force launched the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket.
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman are required to deliver satellites to MDA by 2023.
Astroscale is developing a servicer spacecraft called Life Extension In-Orbit to dock with geostationary satellites and take over stationkeeping and attitude control similar to Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle.
Northrop Grumman won a $155,000,000 contract from MDA to develop a second HBTSS satellite.
Northrop Grumman subsidiary SpaceLogistics docked its Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) to a geostationary satellite in February.
Northrop Grumman’s HCB-enabled gateway solutions are designed to provide high-speed, secure, open, and platform-agnostic communications capabilities for the Department of Defense’s JADC2 effort.
Northrop Grumman’s 2018 acquisition of Orbital ATK was approved by regulators on the condition that Northrop implement behavioral remedies requiring it to supply motors to competitors.
Orbital ATK secured nearly $800,000,000 in 2018 in Air Force funding to support the OmegA project.