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 and Ball Aerospace plan to deliver their sensor payload to Lockheed Martin in 2023.
Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace are one of two teams selected by Lockheed Martin to develop a competitive payload design for the Next-Gen OPIR GEO program.
With the flight design complete, Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace will manufacture, integrate, and test the Next-Gen OPIR GEO flight mission payload.
Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered the NTS-3 satellite bus to L3Harris Technologies.
NTS-3 uses a unique acquisition model for the ESPAStar line to provide Northrop Grumman’s bus to another defense contractor for payload integration using standard interfaces.
A year earlier, Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 lifted Intelsat’s defunct IS-901 satellite out of a geostationary graveyard orbit and returned it to service.
NASA issued a procurement filing in July 2019 indicating it would use a sole-source contract with Northrop Grumman for a habitation module based on NextSTEP work dating to 2016.
NASA awarded a $935,000,000 contract to Northrop Grumman to build and integrate the first habitation module for the lunar Gateway.
Northrop Grumman was one of six companies that received NextSTEP awards for habitation module studies and was the only company NASA concluded would be ready to meet the 2024 deadline set in March 2019.
NASA issued a $187,000,000 contract in June 2020 to Northrop Grumman to cover HALO work through the preliminary design review.
NASA engaged with Northrop Grumman on HALO for nearly two years under a series of contracts worth more than $1,100,000,000 prior to the $935,000,000 award.
Northrop Grumman will build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for the Gateway under a contract finalized on 2021-07-09.
Companies that received NOAA contracts in 2020 included Ball Aerospace, L3Harris Technologies, Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, and York Space Systems.
Northrop Grumman is the only company that had provided post-launch in-orbit servicing to a commercial customer as of June 2021.
Northrop Grumman and Astroscale offer space tugs that dock with already launched satellites to change orbits, increase fuel reserves, or enable safe deorbiting.
The NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft launched on 2021-02-20 aboard Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket.
Northrop Grumman plans to launch additional in-orbit servicing products in 2024 including a Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) and Mission Extension Pods (MEPs).
Northrop Grumman delivered an ESPAStar-D spacecraft bus from Gilbert, Arizona to L3Harris in Melbourne, Florida.
Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 attached to Intelsat’s IS-901 satellite in 2019, lifting the spacecraft out of GEO graveyard orbit and returning it to service.
Northrop Grumman is partnering with the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to produce three ESPAStar platforms for Long Duration Propulsive EELV (LDPE) missions.