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 NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft was launched on 2021-02-20 aboard Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket.
Northrop Grumman is developing two prototype TITAN ground stations under a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit and the Army Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities office.
TTTech Aerospace was selected by Northrop Grumman to provide the TTEthernet-based network and computing platform for the Gateway’s habitation and logistics outpost (HALO).
Northrop Grumman’s TITAN prototype designs will be tested in exercises in 2022 and 2023 to demonstrate the value of commercial and military space assets in improving battlefield awareness.
Northrop Grumman Corporation was awarded an expanded role as systems integrator for C5ISR and control systems on the U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter by Eastern Shipbuilding Group.
The Space Force is investing billions of dollars in a new Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) constellation of geostationary satellites built by Lockheed Martin and polar-orbiting satellites built by Northrop Grumman to provide global early warning of missile launches.
Northrop Grumman Corporation built and operated the Minotaur I launch vehicle used for the NROL-111 mission.
The NROL-129 mission launched in 2020 on a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 rocket, which is a larger vehicle than the Minotaur 1.
A Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 four-stage solid fuel rocket launched three National Reconnaissance Office payloads on 2021-06-15 at 9:35 a.m. Eastern from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
Northrop Grumman successfully launched the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) payload into orbit for the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center using the company’s Pegasus XL rocket.
Pegasus is an air-launched, three-staged rocket carried aloft by Northrop Grumman’s specially modified Stargazer L-1011 aircraft.
A Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket launched the U.S. Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Launch-2 (TacRL-2) mission on 2021-06-13 at 1:11 a.m. Pacific from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Commercial partners designing and testing the Federated Quantum System include BT, Northrop Grumman, Sumitomo, Leonardo, and Austrian startup QTL.
The launch of TacRL-2 was awarded to Northrop Grumman under the Orbital Services Program-4.
The Space Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $28,000,000 contract for the TacRL-2 launch.
Northrop Grumman’s twin solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System will produce £8,800,000of thrust.
Northrop Grumman shipped 10 rocket motor segments from Promontory, Utah to Kennedy Space Center by rail for assembly into two separate solid rocket boosters.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a $2,400,000,000 contract to initiate the design of two additional Next-Gen OPIR satellites for polar coverage.
Northrop Grumman held contracts for three more JPSS satellites with instrument contributions from Ball Aerospace, Raytheon, and L3Harris slated to launch between 2022 and 2032.
The Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS) program awarded Northrop Grumman a $429,000,000 contract in 2011 to build a DMSP successor before Congress directed termination of DWSS in 2012.