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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The Federal Trade Commission opened an investigative query into Northrop Grumman's June 2018 acquisition of Orbital ATK.
The U.S. Air Force confirmed on 2019-12-13 that Northrop Grumman was the only bidder for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program to develop a new intercontinental ballistic missile.
The contracts awarded to L3Harris and Northrop Grumman are part of the Defense Experimentation Using the Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) project.
L3Harris and Northrop Grumman received three-year contracts to establish the ability to communicate with Air Force platforms via multiple commercial space internet constellations using common user terminal hardware elements.
On 2019-12-06, the Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $9,900,000 contract to integrate commercial space internet services on military aircraft.
United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, and Northrop Grumman were developing new launch vehicles for the Phase 2 competition and projected first flights of those rockets in 2021.
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems holds a $410,000,000 contract to develop the Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization payloads.
Northrop Grumman plans OmegA’s first flight in early 2021.
Northrop Grumman is offering the solid-propulsion OmegA launch vehicle that was originally developed by Orbital ATK before the company was acquired by Northrop Grumman.
NASA plans to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman to develop the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) element based on Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft.
Inmarsat has two payloads scheduled to launch in 2022 on Space Norway satellites being built by Northrop Grumman.
The Air Force signed cost-sharing agreements in October 2018 with Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and United Launch Alliance to help pay for vehicle development and launch infrastructure.
SoundSee launched on 2019-11-02 aboard Northrop Grumman’s CRS-12 resupply mission.
Gene Fujii previously worked as a Principal Systems Engineer at Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) on small LEO and geosynchronous equatorial orbit commercial communications satellites.
Finalists for Breakthrough of the Year included SpaceX’s Starlink, NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission, JAXA’s Hayabusa-2, China’s Chang’e 4 lunar landing, Spaceflight’s SSO-A SmallSat Express rideshare mission, Spektr-RG, and Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 satellite servicing mission.
Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket flew the NG-12 cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station on 2019-11-02.
The original CRS contracts were awarded in 2008 to Orbital Sciences Corporation (now Northrop Grumman) and SpaceX to transport cargo to and from the ISS.
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket launched a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on 2019-11-02 from Wallops Island, Virginia.
The Day 3 issue of the Show Daily was published 2019-10-23 and features a cover story on Blue Origin joining forces with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper to compete for NASA’s lunar lander contract.
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos, and L3Harris each a $20,000,000 contract to design space sensors that can track hypersonic and ballistic missiles on 2019-10-29.