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Northrop Grumman plans to launch at least three Cygnus missions on Falcon 9 rockets while developing a new Antares first stage with Firefly Aerospace.
Northrop Grumman is working with Firefly Aerospace to replace the Ukrainian-built Antares first stage powered by Russian engines with a stage developed by Firefly using its own engines.
All previous Cygnus missions launched on Northrop Grumman’s Antares launch vehicle except two missions that launched on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V after an Antares launch failure in 2014.
Northrop Grumman recorded a $36,000,000 charge on the HALO contract in the second quarter of 2023.
NASA awarded Northrop Grumman a $935,000,000 fixed-price contract in July 2021 to build the HALO module.
Northrop Grumman disclosed a $42,000,000 unfavorable EAC (estimate at completion) adjustment on its contract to build the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for NASA’s lunar Gateway in its fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings release on 2024-01-25.
NASA, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX are targeting 12:29 p.m. EST on Monday, 2024-01-29 for a launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
Northrop Grumman is taking a more cautious approach to firm fixed-price contracts, including declining to bid if a customer chose fixed price or offering prices it considered fair and reasonable, as exemplified by its response to SDA Tranche 2.
Northrop Grumman’s total losses for the year on the HALO program reached $100,000,000.
Northrop Grumman won a contract in 2022 to provide some satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 1.
Mynaric was selected by Northrop Grumman for SDA programs supporting the Tranche 1 Transport Layer and Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Northrop Grumman terminated a funded Space Act Agreement with NASA as part of its agreement to support Starlab.
Northrop Grumman conducted a successful static fire test on 2024-01-16 of the second-stage solid rocket motor for a new intercontinental ballistic missile it is developing for the U.S. Air Force.
Starlab Space has a teaming agreement with Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman received a contract from United Launch Alliance in 2022 worth more than $2,000,000,000 for multiple years of high-rate production of the GEM 63XL booster for ULA’s Vulcan backlog.
The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a $13,300,000,000 contract in 2020 to design and develop a next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile to replace the Minuteman III missiles.
Northrop Grumman will provide technical support to Starlab and develop a variant of its Cygnus cargo vehicle that can dock with Starlab.
SDA has ordered 190 satellites for Transport Layer Tranche 2: 100 Alpha satellites to be manufactured by Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems and 90 Beta satellites to be produced by Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Rocket Lab USA.
Starlab Space has a teaming agreement with Northrop Grumman.
Northrop Grumman began development of the fifth-generation GEM 63XL strap-on boosters in 2015 under a cooperative agreement with United Launch Alliance to provide additional lift capability for the Vulcan launch vehicle.