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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NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate awarded Made In Space and partners Northrop Grumman and Oceaneering Space Systems a two-year $20,000,000 contract in 2016 to develop Archinaut.
The report assumes cargo transportation costs at $20,000 per kilogram, while current contracts with Northrop Grumman and SpaceX charge approximately three times that amount.
Northrop Grumman stated that no employees responsible for the human errors that led to JWST delays lost their jobs.
Northrop Grumman declined to accept responsibility for paying the $800,000,000 overrun above the JWST mission's $8,000,000,000 cost cap on the grounds that doing so would create a more fixed-price relationship with NASA.
Northrop Grumman's 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2018 shows net earnings of just over $2,000,000,000 in 2017.
Northrop Grumman accepted and was implementing the recommendations of an independent review board that released its final report a month before the 2018-07-26 hearing.
Wes Bush declined to state Northrop Grumman's profit for the prior year during the hearing and offered to provide that information for the record.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems was chosen to build Intelsat’s Galaxy-30 GEO satellite.
The Air Force awarded a $328,000,000 contract to Northrop Grumman in August 2017 to mature GBSD designs after a three-way competition.
Orbital ATK’s first Mission Extension Vehicle, MEV-1, is slated to launch in early next year to dock with Intelsat-901 and take over orbital station-keeping duties, extending the satellite’s service life by several years.
Orbital ATK completed successful compatibility assessments between MEV-1 and Intelsat-901.
Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems uses the RD-181 to power Antares rockets that launch Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station for NASA.
United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman purchase RD-180 and RD-181 engines from RD Amross, a Florida-based joint venture of Energomash and Pratt & Whitney.
In May 2017 DARPA selected Boeing to develop the XS-1 program, with Masten Space Systems and Northrop Grumman having received earlier study contracts.
The Federal Trade Commission required Northrop Grumman to supply solid rocket motors to its competitors and to run its solid rocket motor business separately from its other businesses.
United Launch Alliance selected Orbital ATK boosters in 2015 for future Atlas flights and for its Vulcan next-generation launch vehicle, prompting Aerojet Rocketdyne to close its Atlas 5 booster business.
NASA chartered an independent review board in March that completed a review offering about 30 recommendations which NASA accepted to revise JWST development and oversight of work at prime contractor Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman operates Orbital ATK’s four solid rocket motor facilities: two in Utah that make large SRMs, one in West Virginia that produces tactical rocket motors, and one in Maryland that specializes in solid rockets for anti-missile interceptors.
Orbital ATK-produced space shuttle-derived solid rocket boosters will be built under Northrop Grumman for NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket.
The Air Force decided to begin modernizing its missile warning constellation within the next five years and awarded Lockheed Martin the contract for geostationary orbit satellites and Northrop Grumman the contract for polar orbit satellites.