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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Pegasus is Northrop Grumman’s air-launched rocket and, together with Minotaur solid rockets, serves Department of Defense and intelligence agency customers.
Surplus rocket motors are shipped from Hill Air Force Base to launch locations where Northrop Grumman assembles the Minotaur rockets.
A Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 solid propellant rocket launched the NROL-129 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office on 2020-07-15 at 9:46 a.m. Eastern from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
For the NTS-3 experiment, L3Harris is building a satellite that integrates its GPS navigation payload with a Northrop Grumman ESPAStar bus.
SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman were competitors for the U.S. Space Force’s National Security Space Launch Phase 2 competition with two winners to be selected in summer 2020.
Northrop Grumman is under contract to provide boosters for the Artemis 1, Artemis 2, and Artemis 3 missions through 2024.
The 2020-06-29 letter contract allows Northrop Grumman to begin buying long-lead items for boosters intended for the fourth through ninth flights of the Space Launch System.
Northrop Grumman shipped the ten booster segments needed for the Artemis 1 mission from a company storage facility in Utah to Kennedy Space Center for stacking and integration.
NASA signed a letter contract with Northrop Grumman for solid rocket boosters on 2020-06-29 valued at $49,500,000.
Northrop Grumman will provide technical and engineering support for the Defense Support Program until 2030.
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a $222,500,000 contract to Northrop Grumman on 2020-06-26 for technology upgrades to the Defense Support Program.
The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman multiple contracts since 2007 to sustain and update the Defense Support Program constellation.
Northrop Grumman built the Defense Support Program satellites and sensors that have been part of the U.S. military’s early-warning system since 1970.
In October 2018 the Air Force awarded Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, and Northrop Grumman $2,300,000,000 in Launch Service Agreement development funding to be spread over six years.
Intelsat and SES have ordered 10 replacement C-band satellites ahead of the FCC’s auction from Boeing, Maxar, and Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman is developing the OmegA rocket for the Phase 2 competition with a planned first flight in 2021.
Northrop Grumman will build SES-18 and SES-19 in Dulles, Virginia on its GeoStar-3 satellite platform.
On 2020-06-16, SES contracted Boeing and Northrop Grumman to each build two geostationary communications satellites for C-band services in the United States.
Intelsat ordered six replacement C-band satellites—four from Maxar Technologies and two from Northrop Grumman—and is negotiating with manufacturers for a seventh satellite.
Four of the satellites ordered by Intelsat will be built by Maxar Technologies and two will be built by Northrop Grumman.