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On 2023-10-30, the Space Development Agency awarded Northrop Grumman a $732,000,000 contract for 38 communications satellites that will be part of the U.S. military’s low Earth orbit space architecture.
Company executives at Northrop Grumman had difficulties identifying customers and faced uncertainties about international partners and regulatory issues.
NASA will reallocate unused funds from Northrop Grumman’s Space Act Agreement to other companies with NASA agreements, including Voyager Space.
Northrop Grumman terminated its NASA agreement on 2023-10-04 and will join forces with Voyager Space on Voyager’s commercial space station project.
Northrop Grumman won a $13,300,000 contract in December to refurbish the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit for NOAA’s QuickSounder program.
NOAA plans to launch the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit refurbished by Northrop Grumman on a commercial satellite bus for QuickSounder.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) completed a Critical Design Review for Relay Ground Station-Asia (RGS-A) under a contract with U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific on behalf of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to support operation of legacy and future missile-warning satellites.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman were selected in 2020 to build ESS satellite prototypes that are still in development and will be evaluated in a side-by-side competition.
Airbus and Northrop Grumman signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and foster a strategic partnership in military satellite communications for the United Kingdom’s future wideband SKYNET military satellite communications program.
Airbus and Northrop Grumman will collaborate to offer customers the latest military satellite communications technologies and ensure users are connected and able to process increasing amounts of data collected and disseminated on the ground, in the air, at sea, and in orbit.
The Space Development Agency also ordered 36 Transport Layer Tranche 2 Beta satellites from Northrop Grumman.
NOAA announced in December plans to launch an Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder engineering development unit refurbished by Northrop Grumman on a commercial satellite bus for QuickSounder.
The 72 Beta satellites ordered from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman carry more complex communications payloads.
Transport Layer Tranche 2 includes 72 Beta satellites that were ordered from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
The affected satellites were built at Northrop Grumman’s facility between 2018 and 2020.
Under the teaming agreement, Northrop Grumman will perform services to upgrade its flight-proven Cygnus cargo vehicle with a fully autonomous docking system to support Starlab missions.
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft will be used to deliver pressurized cargo to Starlab over an initial five-year period to support future human spaceflight missions.
Yahsat’s Al Yah 3, Avanti Communications’ Hylas 4, and Northrop Grumman’s Mission Extension Vehicles MEV-1 and MEV-2 are operating with reduced power to their thrusters following a problem with onboard Power Processing Units.
Voyager Space and Northrop Grumman’s teaming follows Voyager Space and Airbus forming a transatlantic joint venture to develop and operate the Starlab space station intended to ensure a continued human presence in low Earth orbit and launch before the ISS is decommissioned.
MEV-1 and MEV-2 are operated by Northrop Grumman’s SpaceLogistics in-orbit-servicing subsidiary and are extending the missions of two Intelsat satellites they are attached to in geostationary orbit.