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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With the final order, Intelsat has tasked Maxar with building five C-band satellites and Northrop Grumman with building two for Intelsat.
SES ordered two C-band replacement satellites apiece from Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Thales Alenia Space.
Northrop Grumman received a $298,000,000 contract to develop a jam-resistant military satellite to supplement and eventually replace the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites made by Lockheed Martin.
The Atlas V for the NROL-101 mission will use three GEM-63 strap-on solid rocket boosters manufactured by Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman won a $13,300,000,000 Air Force contract to produce solid rocket motors for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile program.
The Department of the Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $13,300,000,000 contract on 2020-09-08 to develop the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile.
NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully tested a solid rocket booster developed for the Space Launch System on 2020-09-02.
The booster tested was a five-segment booster built by Northrop Grumman for the Flight Support Booster 1 test.
The U.S. Air Force awarded National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance rather than to Northrop Grumman.
The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a Launch Service Agreement in 2018 valued at $792,000,000 to support work on the OmegA rocket.
Northrop Grumman planned OmegA’s first flight in 2021.
In December, Northrop Grumman signed up the startup Saturn Satellite Networks as OmegA’s first customer to launch a small geostationary communications satellite.
A Blue Origin-led national team that includes Draper, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman received a $579,000,000 NASA contract to design vehicles to land humans on the moon.
The Blue Origin-led team includes Northrop Grumman developing the transfer element that moves the lander in lunar orbit and Draper providing the guidance and avionics.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Launch Service Agreements in October 2018 to United Launch Alliance, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin.
SpaceX beat competitors Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman in a competition to launch military satellites for the Pentagon from 2022 to 2027.
David Thompson is the former president of Orbital ATK who retired shortly after Orbital ATK was acquired by Northrop Grumman in 2018.
Northrop Grumman's first servicer, MEV-1, docked with an Intelsat satellite in a graveyard orbit a few hundred kilometers above active geostationary satellites.
Northrop Grumman and Intelsat plan to dock MEV-2 with Intelsat 10-02 directly in geostationary orbit in 2021, a maneuver that may require Intelsat 10-02 to pause service for 20 to 30 minutes.
Northrop Grumman built the Galaxy-30 satellite, which carries C-band transponders for broadcast services and Ku- and Ka-band transponders for broadband connectivity over North America.