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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Ariane 5 last launched in August 2020, placing two communications satellites and Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicle 2 into geostationary transfer orbit.
Northrop Grumman presented a full-scale Vela satellite model to the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base on 2021-05-04.
TRW, the company that built the Vela satellites, later became part of Northrop Grumman.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $13,300,000 contract to provide positioning, navigation and timing payloads for the Blackjack program.
Northrop Grumman’s contract for Blackjack was awarded on 2021-04-28 and is listed on sam.gov.
The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $13,000,000,000 contract last year to develop GBSD.
The solar arrays provided by Northrop Grumman will power Airbus OneSat communication satellites operating in geostationary orbit (GEO).
Frank Slazer has held engineering and business development roles at Northrop Grumman, United Launch Alliance, and Boeing.
The Northrop Grumman solar arrays for OneSat are a 20 kW-class system that deploys over 18 m to provide spacecraft power.
Northrop Grumman will supply heat pipes for payload thermal management for the OneSat satellites.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) was awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space to design, develop, and produce 24 ship sets of solar arrays for the OneSat satellite product line.
Northrop Grumman produced 11 large composite structures for the ULA Delta IV Heavy, including three thermal shields, three centerbody structures, the payload fairing, the composite interstage on the center common booster core, the nose cones on the two strap-on boosters, and one set of X-panel structures.
Northrop Grumman manufactured the propellant tank for the Delta IV upper stage roll control system at its Commerce, California facility.
Northrop Grumman manufactured the large-scale composite structures for the Delta IV Heavy at its facility in Iuka, Mississippi, using advanced hand layup, machining, and inspection techniques.
Northrop Grumman designed and produced the nozzles for the three Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68 engines and the nozzles’ thermal protection material and manufactured the nozzles at its Promontory, Utah facility.
Northrop Grumman completed the preliminary design peer review of its PTS prototype in December 2020.
A flight demonstration of Northrop Grumman’s Protected Tactical SATCOM payload is planned for 2024.
Northrop Grumman received the initial award for the Protected Tactical SATCOM program in February 2020 through the Space Enterprise Consortium.
Boeing’s and Northrop Grumman’s payloads will be launched to space in 2024 on a military or commercial satellite for on-orbit demonstration.
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Boeing a $191,000,000 contract, Lockheed Martin a $240,000,000 contract, and Northrop Grumman a $253,000,000 contract in February and March 2020 to design prototype payloads for the PTS program.