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 Innovation Systems uses the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island to launch Antares rockets to the International Space Station.
Intelsat ordered the Galaxy-30 satellite from Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems) in January.
Maxar Technologies’ SSL, Sierra Nevada Corp., and Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems were selected to compete for future small satellite development contracts that could be worth up to $750,000,000.
The selected Raytheon and Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace teams are tasked to develop detailed designs and compete their solutions for potential use on the next-generation OPIR Block 0 GEO satellites.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract to build two polar-orbit satellites as part of the next-generation OPIR program.
Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team to compete for the mission payloads of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Block 0 missile warning satellites.
Blue Origin joins an industry team for Vulcan that includes Aerojet Rocketdyne providing the RL10 engine for the rocket's upper stage, Northrop Grumman supplying solid-fuel strap-on boosters, L-3 Avionics Systems providing the rocket's avionics, and Ruag supplying the rocket's payload fairing.
Shea Ferring has held engineering and leadership roles at NASA Launch Services Program, ECAPS, Vencore, and Orbital ATK.
Stratolaunch plans to use the Pegasus XL rocket from Northrop Grumman for some missions.
Northrop Grumman has developed a maintenance and upgrade plan to continue operating its L-1011 aircraft for the next 10 years.
Northrop Grumman has worked in recent years to reduce Pegasus vehicle costs by 20 to 30 percent.
Northrop Grumman unveiled the Omega rocket in April at the National Space Symposium a few months after acquiring Orbital ATK.
Northrop Grumman plans to seek customers for the two Omega certification flights in 2021 and aims to be certified to fly government payloads in 2022.
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Air Force collectively invested more than $200,000,000 in the Omega launch vehicle between 2015 and 2017.
Northrop Grumman developed ESPASat, a geostationary satellite bus designed to fly from the ESPAStar platform, based on the AFRL Automated Navigation and Guidance Experiment for Local Space (ANGELS) program launched in 2014.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and Thales Alenia Space each won one of the 2018 normal commercial GEO contracts.
Stratolaunch reached an agreement with Orbital ATK in 2016 to use the Pegasus rocket on its carrier aircraft with the ability to launch as many as three Pegasus rockets on a single flight.
The Pegasus XL rocket provided by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems will be the small-end option of Stratolaunch’s vehicle family, with launches beginning in 2020.
Carlos Niederstrasser of Northrop Grumman identified 101 small launch vehicles that are or have been under development in the last four years based on open-source information in a presentation on 2018-08-08.
The Space and Missile Systems Center is using expedited procurement authorities to buy five missile-warning satellites from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.