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 develops the Transfer Element vehicle that delivers the landing system into low lunar orbit for final descent.
Northrop Grumman reduced its full-year 2020 sales guidance from an original projection of $35.3–35.8 billion to $35.0–35.4 billion.
Northrop Grumman is advancing an average of $30,000,000 per week in payments to its suppliers using increased progress payments it is receiving from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle 1 (MEV-1) successfully docked with the Intelsat 901 satellite and moved the satellite to a new location in geostationary orbit to allow it to continue operations.
Northrop Grumman reported net earnings of $868,000,000 in the first quarter of 2020, a 1% increase compared to the first quarter of 2019.
Northrop Grumman reported total sales of $8,620,000,000 in the first quarter of 2020, a 5% increase compared to the first quarter of 2019.
Except for SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are offering newly designed rockets that RAND projects will be ready by 2021.
Between the completed motor tests and OmegA’s first launch in spring 2021, Northrop Grumman will test fairing separation.
Northrop Grumman planned to release a test report on 2020-04-27 detailing the Common Boost Segment motor testing.
Between the completed motor tests and OmegA’s first launch in spring 2021, Northrop Grumman will perform pressurized tests of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen tanks.
Northrop Grumman is one of four companies competing for two U.S. Space Force launch service contracts to be awarded later 2020 to provide launches for five years starting in 2022.
Work on the James Webb Space Telescope slowed in late March 2020 after the departure of many NASA personnel from the Northrop Grumman facility where the spacecraft was undergoing final testing.
In 2009 Masten Space Systems won the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge with landers named Xombie and Xoie.
Northrop Grumman started flights under the second CRS contract in November 2019 and has launched two Cygnus spacecraft to date under that award.
A second Commercial Resupply Services contract was awarded in 2016 to SpaceX, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman), and Sierra Nevada Corporation.
JWST integration and testing activities at the Northrop Grumman facility were reduced from about 45–50 NASA personnel weekly to about 15 personnel.
NASA suspended work on the James Webb Space Telescope on 2020-03-20 related to integration and testing activities at a Northrop Grumman facility in Southern California.
Integration and testing work on the James Webb Space Telescope resumed at a Northrop Grumman facility on 2020-03-25 with reduced personnel and shifts.
The resumed James Webb Space Telescope integration and testing at the Northrop Grumman facility is planned to continue only until early April 2020 because of a lack of available NASA personnel.
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded PTS contracts to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman to develop jam-resistant communications payloads.