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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Greg Robinson, JWST program director at NASA Headquarters, and Scott Willoughby, vice president and JWST program manager at Northrop Grumman, believed the mission was on track to complete a final set of environmental and deployment tests and be shipped to the launch site at Kourou, French Guiana, by the end of 2020.
NASA intends to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman to build the HALO module.
All three companies—Boeing, Masten Space Systems, and Northrop Grumman—received Phase 1 study contracts from DARPA in 2014.
The October 2018 LSA contracts awarded $500,000,000 to Blue Origin, $967,000,000 to United Launch Alliance, and $762,000,000 to Northrop Grumman.
SpaceX is challenging the Air Force’s October 2018 decision to award Launch Service Agreements to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance.
Eutelsat 5 West B uses a Northrop Grumman GEOStar-2 platform with an all Ku-band payload from Airbus Defence and Space.
The GEM-63 engine is used on both United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan and Northrop Grumman’s OmegA, creating intertwined engine risks.
Except for SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman are offering newly designed rockets that RAND projects will be ready by 2021.
Eleven companies won concept study and prototype development awards from NASA in May, including Blue Origin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX, with a combined value of $45,500,000.
Lockheed Martin Corporation manufactures the SBIRS satellites and Northrop Grumman Corporation manufactures the SBIRS payloads.
Northrop Grumman plans to deliver the James Webb Space Telescope by the end of 2020.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be shipped from Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Southern California to Kourou, French Guiana for preparation for launch on an Ariane 5.
Russia launched five Proton rockets in 2019, of which one was a commercial dual launch for Northrop Grumman and Eutelsat Communications and the rest were for government missions.
After the Export-Import Bank’s charter lapsed in 2015, Boeing and Orbital ATK said they lost satellite manufacturing contracts because they could not offer export financing.
NROL-111, another National Reconnaissance Office mission, will launch in late 2020 from Wallops Island aboard a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 vehicle.
NROL-129, a National Reconnaissance Office mission, is scheduled to launch in spring 2020 on a Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Eight vendors—SpaceX, Xbow Launch Systems, Northrop Grumman, Firefly Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, Aevum, VOX Space, and Rocket Lab—were selected to compete for OSP-4 missions to launch small and medium payloads over 180 kg.
Northrop Grumman agreed to launch one or two of Saturn’s NationSat small geostationary communications satellites on the maiden flight of OmegA.
Northrop Grumman plans to target the first OmegA flight in the first part of 2021 and to conduct the second certification flight shortly thereafter.
Northrop Grumman received a $792,000,000 Launch Service Agreement from the U.S. Air Force last year to support OmegA development for the National Security Space Launch program.