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Northrop Grumman

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Falls Church, Virginia, United States
www.northropgrumman.com/
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Robert Smith, a senior staff systems engineer at Northrop Grumman, noted that private industry has rapidly implemented ground enterprise capabilities in response to market forces.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralJan 10, 2023Commercial innovation for NOAA ground enterprise architecture

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems purchased the patent for extending the life of spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit from Dennis Wingo.

Mentioned as: Northrop Grumman Innovation SystemsTechnical ProductJan 10, 2023Steven Kwast, a retired U.S. Air Force general, is Skycorp’s new CEO

Northrop Grumman’s manufacturing facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory uses lean manufacturing and digital engineering techniques.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductJan 10, 2023Northrop Grumman assumes full GMLRS rocket motor production

Northrop Grumman anticipates launching a prototype in 2025 to demonstrate beaming radio frequency energy down to the planet.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power

On 2022-12-15, Northrop Grumman completed a successful demonstration of the ability to beam radio frequency energy toward various antennas by steering the beam.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power

Northrop Grumman completed ground-based tests to demonstrate critical technology required for a 2025 demonstration of space-based solar power.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power

Lockheed Martin selected Terran Orbital as its satellite-bus supplier for the Transport Layer Tranche 1, a much larger constellation being built by Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and York Space.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipDec 22, 2022Terran Orbital delivers 10 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin for U.S. military constellation

Northrop Grumman is developing the milli-Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope (mHRG) to be featured in the new LR-450 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for smaller platforms requiring a lower-weight, lower-cost solution.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn, launched in 1997, relied on Northrop Grumman SSIRU navigation to explore Saturn and several of its moons, including flybys of Titan and Enceladus.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Northrop Grumman a $100,000,000 contract in 2018 to develop a payload to demonstrate key components of a prototype space solar power system.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power

Northrop Grumman’s hemispherical resonator gyros (HRGs) performed for more than 65 million hours in space in 2022 without a single mission failure.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative FinancialDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield was deployed and tensioned by testing teams at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California where final deployment tests were completed.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

Northrop Grumman is manufacturing flight hardware to assemble a system that will be launched on the Northrop Grumman ESPAStar platform.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman clears key hurdle for space-based solar power

A Northrop Grumman SSIRU was on board NASA’s MESSENGER mission that launched in 2004 to fly by and photograph Mercury and later fly around Venus in 2006.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

Northrop Grumman’s SSIRU will be carried aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch in May 2027 and will observe explosions caused by the collisions of dense, massive stars.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

Northrop Grumman provided the twin five-segment solid rocket boosters for the Artemis I SLS rocket that delivered more than 75 percent of the rocket’s thrust at launch.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 19, 2022Northrop Grumman’s RQ-4 RangeHawk supports NASA’s Artemis Mission

Northrop Grumman's SSPIDR team demonstrated the transmission of directed RF energy to a ground-based rectifying antenna (rectenna) in a test chamber in Baltimore.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanTechnical ProductDec 16, 2022Northrop Grumman Successfully Demonstrates Transmission of Directed RF Energy for Space Solar Power

Northrop Grumman’s Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR) Project is working on transmitting solar energy from space to Earth.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanNarrative GeneralDec 16, 2022Northrop Grumman Successfully Demonstrates Transmission of Directed RF Energy for Space Solar Power

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation will provide products and services required to monitor and maintain Webb spacecraft systems including the spacecraft bus, optics/telescope, and sunshield.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipDec 15, 2022NASA awards contract for Webb Telescope operations maintenance

Work on the James Webb Space Telescope Phase E – Operations and Sustainment contract will be performed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and at Northrop Grumman’s facility.

Mentioned as: Northrop GrummanOrg RelationshipDec 15, 2022NASA awards contract for Webb Telescope operations maintenance
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